Birth Defects Research Centre

Birth Defects Research Centre

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• Birth defects as an international health challenge
• ICH Units containing key BDRC activities
• Research Groups in the BDRC
• Research highlights from members of the BDRC
• The BDRC laboratories
• A virtual Birth Defects Research Centre
• BDRC Seminar Series

Research Groups in the BDRC

• Brain and pituitary – Tom Jacques, JP Martinez-Barbera
• Cardiovascular – Pete Scambler
• Ciliopathies and other syndromes – Phil Beales, Hannah Mitchison
• Craniofacial and cleft palate – Peter Hammond, Erwin Pauws, Philip Stanier
• Endocrine – John Achermann, Mehul Dattani
• Eye disorders – Jane Sowden
• Genetics/epigenetics – Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Gudrun Moore
• Gut motility defects – Alan Burns, Nikhil Thapar
• Imaging – Mark Lythgoe
• Immune system – Tessa Crompton, Adrian Thrasher
• Kidney and bladder – David Long, Paul Winyard
• Metabolic disorders – Peter Clayton, Paul Gissen, Shamima Rahman, Philippa Mills
• Movement disorders - Manju Kurian
• Neural tube defects – Andrew Copp, Nick Greene
• Neuromuscular – Jenny Morgan, Francesco Muntoni
• Prenatal diagnosis – Lyn Chitty
• Proteomics and mass spectrometry – Kevin Mills
• Stem cells – Paolo De Coppi, Patrizia Ferretti