NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre Lecture Series
Theme: Medical Genetics & Bioinformatics
Wednesday 22nd February 2012, 5pm followed by drinks reception
CRUK Cambridge Research Institute Lecture Theatre (Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way)
Host: Professor John Todd FRS
Guest Speaker: Professor Peter Robinson
Institute for Medical Genetics, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin
Title: Bioinformatic Treasure Hunting in Human Genetics: Finding Novel Disease Genes with Graphs, Exomes, and the Human Phenotype Ontology
'In recent years, bioinformatics are increasingly turning to integrative analysis of heterogeneous data to address problems in medicine. In this talk, I will intuitively explain this strategy for three recent projects of my lab: (i) exploiting protein interaction networks for prioritisation of candidate genes, (ii) modelling inheritance to filter exome data by a form of linkage analysis: and (iii) using Human Phenotype Ontology to explain the phenotypes of CNV diseases.'
All welcome, more details available from sylvie.robinson@addenbrookes.nhs.uk
NIHR Funding
Surgery Themed Call: Applied Health Research in Surgery
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) will issue a call for research on the evaluation of technology-driven implanted or implantable medical devices, surgical procedures or surgical services in February 2012.
This call is a key component of the NIHR response to recognition of the need for an increase in research based evidence related to surgical productivity and to patient outcomes;
- through supporting capacity building across a wide range of surgical disciplines and,
- increasing the volume of high-quality research on the effectiveness, delivery and organisation of surgery and surgical services.
For more information on the 6 NIHR managed research programmes visit -
http://www.nihr.ac.uk/research/Pages/Surgery.aspx
Application forms will be available from Thursday 23 February 2012. Completed forms must be submitted by Friday 25 May 2012. Funding decisions will be made no later than the end of March 2013.
Academic Clinical Women's Forum
The forum has been set up to provide information and help to both senior and junior academic clinicians.
Events will be held throughout the year and mentors for junior staff have been identified in various specialities.
Please check their website for further details - www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/research/acw
