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Visit to Unit: Nicola Sturgeon MSP: Nov 2007
Unit Director Professor Nick Hastie was delighted to welcome the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Ms Nicola Sturgeon. Professor Hastie gave Ms Sturgeon an overview of the research undertaken on the site, and described how basic research feeds into improved health care. He also gave an outline of plans for the new institute, IGMM, which brings together scientists in a cross-disciplinary environment to promote more and better collaborative working.
Ms Sturgeon briefly toured the MRC Human Genetics Unit, where she met Professor Wendy Bickmore, who explained how her work on chromosomal positioning is helping to determine the causes of disease, and Dr David Fitzpatrick, who gave details of a new screening technique which is providing better diagnoses of children with chromosomal disorders. Ms Sturgeon also met Professor Mary Porteous in the Molecular Medicine Centre, where she heard about developments in a clinical genetics screening programme for those most at risk of certain cancers.
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- Nicola Sturgeon MSP
- The Scottish Parliament
- MRC HGU Research Pages
- CMM Professor Mary Porteous Research page
HGU Student Prizewinner at Two
Mouse Genetics Meetings: Nov 2007
Angela Lee, who recently completed her PhD in the Human Genetics Unit, has won awards for the best presentation at TWO recent meetings. She won the Verne Chapman Young Scientist Award for the best student or postdoc presentation at the 21st International Mammalian Genome Conference held in Kyoto, Japan. At the end of November, Angela spoke at the Mammalian Development and Genetics Workshop in London, where she won an award for the best overall presentation.
Her talks, "Hair loss mutation (dep) caused by a mutation in the palmitoyl transferase Zdhhc21" described her thesis work which was carried out in the lab of Ian Jackson. Angela is now doing a postdoc jointly between the MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell and the University of Oxford."
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