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7th Jun 2013

Opening of the MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre

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Dan Martin, Mike Grocott and Andrew Murray attended the official opening of the MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre at Hammersmith Hospital Phenome Centre
and Imperial College

They were invited there to be congratulated on the successful award of one of the Centre̢۪s three pilot grants to Xtreme Everest. This grant will enable complex metabolomic analysis of the Xtreme Everest 2 plasma and urine samples once they return to the UK from Nepal next week. The metabolic profile of the samples will be mapped against phenotypic signals from other measurements taken in the field to dig deep into the question of what factors favour beneficial adaptation to hypoxia.

The event was also attended by Sir Keith O̢۪Nions (President and Rector of Imperial College London) and Professor Dame Sally Davies (the Chief Medical Officer). The purpose of the Centre is to understand more about common diseases by characterising people̢۪s phenomes, the combination of genes, environment and lifestyle. This academic-industry partnership based at Imperial College London and Kings College London is planned to be a high throughput laboratory that uses mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance technologies to analyse samples. The Centre is part of the Olympic Legacy, having been previously associated with the anti-doping facility used throughout the Games last summer.

It was a particularly nostalgic day for Dan Martin as one of the other successful grant recipients present at the event was Professor Nilesh Samani from the University of Leicester, Dan̢۪s supervisor for his first taste of research twenty years ago during his intercalated BSc in molecular biology.

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