Date: Tuesday 24th September 2024
Time: 12.30 – 13.30
Title: Genes & Health: a British Bangladeshi and Pakistani cohort for your research
Speaker: Professor David Van Heel, Queen Mary University of London.
Abstract: Genes & Health is a large scale, long-term community based health research study of (British-) Bangladeshi- and Pakistani-origin volunteers with genetics, NHS health records, and volunteer recall for further medical research studies. These ethnicities are mostly missing from many clinical trials and cohorts. In 2024, Genes & Health recruited its 60,000th volunteer. Available datasets on all volunteers include: GSA chip genotyping and TOPMed-r3 imputation; high depth exome sequencing; multisource NHS health record linkage (including primary care, secondary care including pathology and radiology, and national NHS Digital datasets). In 2024, through recall studies we have or are performing single cell RNAseq, proteomics (Seer, Somalogics, OLINK) and metabolomics (Metabolon) on 1700 volunteers. Genes & Health has many high profile scientific publications https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aMzR64u8trBGw2LvzjM0Ko45X6s53lLezUVXcLJQEBc/edit . We actively invite scientists from University of Manchester, and worldwide, to use the resource and through health research bring benefit to our south asian communities.
Location: Citylabs 1.0 , Nelson St, Manchester M13 9NQ
Cost: Free
Registration: If you would like to attend this lunchtime seminar session, please contact: mrcc@mft.nhs.uk