Events
Dr John Overington, European Bioinformatics Institute
ChEMBL - an open database of bioactivity and pharmacology data for drug discovery
2nd July, 13.00, 2nd floor seminar room, Rayne Building, 5 University St
Prof Mark Kearney -Leeds Institute of Genetics,
Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds
Insulin resistance and the endothelium
12th July 12.30, Elias Library & Seminar room, Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, 67 Chenies Mews
Prof Manuel Mayr -Professor of Cardiovascular
Proteomics, Cardiovascular Division, Kings College London
Title tbc
19th July, 13.00, Elias Library & Seminar room, Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, 67 Chenies Mews
Research grant success
ICS staff work with colleagues across UCL and a large number of researchers and academics from outside UCL on cardiovascular research. This research is funded by a number of different research grants, and here is some information on our most recent research grant successes.
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship
Dr Andrew Smith has been awarded an Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation. The £400,000 funding will also support a research assistant for 4 years in the Institute of Cardiovascular Science. The research will identify the causal, non-coding variants responsible for the genetic component of cardiovascular disease using recently developed tools to examine allelic effects on chromatin structure. Using this information, the researchers hope to uncover novel molecular pathways that lead to cardiovascular disease onset and progression. March 2013
BHF Programme Grant
Dr
Ruth Lovering, Professor Philippa Talmud, Professor Steve Humphries,
Professor Manuel Mayr (King's College) and Dr Rolf Apweiler (EBI) have been awarded
over £500,000 funding from the British Heart Foundation to improve the
annotation of genes associated with cardiovascular diseases and processes. The
funding will support two post-doctoral research associates for 5 years in the
Institute of Cardiovascular Science. The team will create protein and microRNA
annotations using Gene Ontology as well as capture protein-protein
interactions. The project is dependent on established and new collaborations
with the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Sanger Institute (Hinxton). February 2013
