UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative

At an exciting time of scientific discovery we are leveraging the UK’s strengths in gene discovery and functional genomics to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning human disease.

Our UK wide-initiative, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), in collaboration with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and coordinated from the University of Exeter, is a network of some of the UK’s leading researchers, clinicians and industry partners, bringing together national expertise in functional genomics and data science.

A new Functional Genomics Screening Laboratory (FGSL) has been established at the Milner Therapeutics Institute in collaboration with AstraZeneca and the University of Cambridge. We are also establishing a Data Coordination Centre (DCC) based at the University of Exeter that will lead on data sharing and the development of novel tools for the analysis of functional genomic data.