GMEC collaborator, Dr Rachel McKendry (University College London), and her colleagues recently received a £2 million Grand Challenge award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), for the development of multi-marker nanosensors for HIV diagnosis. The award compliments Dr McKendry’s current GMEC collaboration to develop similar novel diagnostics for other infectious diseases.
News archive: 2009
Genetics in Transplantation Workshop review
26 Nov '09
Delegates and speakers from the UK, Europe and North America gathered at the Royal Society in London on Tuesday 17th November to attend the GMEC Genetics in Transplantation Workshop. The meeting – the first of its kind in the UK – was set up to address platform technologies and the complexity of statistical analysis between two genomes, donor and recipient, and provide an overview on progress to date in some of the larger studies.
Following the successful conference “Biomarkers in Brain Disease” held in Oxford, United Kingdom on January 26-28, 2009 and co-hosted by the NYAS and GMEC, the proceedings of the meeting are now published and available to purchase here
Bioscience Campus announced.
30 Oct '09
GMEC has been a strong supporter of the open innovation Bioscience Campus on the GSK site at Stevenage, UK. We were delighted when Lord Mandelson (Secretary of State BIS) recently announced the agreement to go ahead with this development, supported by joint funding from GSK, the UK Government, The Wellcome Trust, Technology Strategy Board and the East of England Development Agency.
A business plan is under discussion to provide a Centre for Imaging and Biomarkers (CIB) of global significance, to advance the development of personalised medicine in drug development and in clinical practice.
