Congratulations to Dr George Mells who has been awarded an MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnership (CARP) grant, in the Department of Medical Genetics, for his project on Precision Medicine in Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) beginning in the New Year. Dr George Mells is a Consultant Hepatologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and a theme lead for UK-PBC. […]

Principal Investigator, Dr Serena Nik-Zainal’s Josef Steiner Award is for her successful application to accelerate holistic cancer genome interpretation towards the clinic with collaborators Dr Paul Calleja and Dr Ignacio Medina. The Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Prize 2019, originally also known as the “Nobel Prize for Cancer Research”, goes to Prof. Dr. Serena Nik-Zainal […]

  Nastazja Laskowski, a student on the Genomic Medicine MPhil course has been selected as 1 of 100 students to take part in the Roche Continents programme taking place August 2019. Since 2007, Roche has invited top-talented students to experience a unique journey exploring sources of inspiration at the intersection of science and art, as […]

  Genome sequencing is set to revolutionise the diagnosis of rare childhood conditions, according to researchers in Cambridge. All seriously ill children in England with an unexplained disorder will be eligible for genome analysis, which involves mapping a person’s entire genetic code, from next year. It follows a project at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Cambridge university. […]

On 16th April Medical Genetics took part in Target Oxbridge, taking the Launchpad in Next Generation to black African and Caribbean students and students of mixed race with black African and Caribbean heritage on the Easter Cambridge residential. Dr Tim Hearn who led the session said, “It was great to see the students engaging with genetics […]

  Research, published in The Lancet, carried out by the University of Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Birmingham, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and their collaborators found that genetic testing improves the diagnoses of abnormalities in developing babies that are picked up during ultrasound scans. The scientists used exome sequencing to improve the diagnoses […]

Scientists in Cambridge and London have developed a catalogue of DNA mutation ‘fingerprints’ that could help doctors pinpoint the environmental culprit responsible for a patient’s tumour – including showing some of the fingerprints left in lung tumours by specific chemicals found in tobacco smoke. Our DNA, the human genome, comprises of a string of molecules […]