Visit by Nicola Sturgeon MSP
18 October 2007
IGMM 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 genetic screening programme for those most at risk of certain cancers.
Nicola Sturgeon MSP
The Scottish Parliament
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IGMM Official Opening
27 November 2007
The new Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, which will be known simply as IGMM, was opened officially to great celebration on Tuesday 27 November. The Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, Professor Leszek Borysiewicz (left), and Vice Principal of the University of Edinburgh, Professor John Savill, jointly officiated over the proceedings, which included a tour of the impressive facilities now available to IGMM staff. The tour was followed by a reception, attended by over 100 guests from all over the UK, at which IGMM Director, Professor Nick Hastie, stressed the significance of the Institute, both for those who work there and for the future of scientific progress in the areas of genetics, molecular medicine and cancer research.
MRC Chief Executive Officer - Leszek Borysiewicz
The College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
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Multiple Sclerosis Grant
November 2007
Dr Jim Wilson has recently been awarded a £215,000 project grant over two years from the Multiple Sclerosis Society (UK) to study the Genetics of MS in Orkney and Shetland.
Jim Wilson: Medical & Developmental Genetics
