UCL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Genetics and Epidemiology Research Environment

There have been a range of strategic developments at UCL that facilitate the work of the group. Support for genotyping and bioinformatics exists through UCL’s new centralized platform technology service (UCL Genomics). The Genetic Epidemiology Research Group is also affiliated to the newly created UCL Genetics Institute (UGI), which offers centralized core support for bioinformatics, and statistical genetics as well as providing a framework for interfaculty research in human genetics across UCL. Members and affiliates of UGI include clinicians, geneticists, epidemiologists and statisticians. Much of the work of the Genetic Epidemiology Research group is in the field of cardiovascular disease and there are also established and expanding links with the basic sciences and clinical research in cardiovascular disease through the Division of Medicine and the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences (ICS). Finally, there are established and highly productive links with several groups in the Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, including links with statistical genetics.