UCL Genetics Institute (UGI)

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).

 Nick Luscombe has been elected as a member of EMBO - congratulations to Nick!

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