March 2, 2007

translational medicine

Speakers:
Prof George Davey-Smith, Head Of Epidemiology Division, University of Bristol
Prof Mike Hanna, Director, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases
Prof Dominic Kwiatkowski, Director, MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health
Prof Steve O’Rahilly, Director, MRC Centre for Obesity and Related Metabolic Disor
Prof Steven Sacks, Director, MRC Centre for Transplantation
Prof Neil Ferguson, Director, the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling

The six directors of the Medical Research Council’s new translational medicine centres spoke to jounalists about the benefits which these are hoped to bring to the field of biomedical research.