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Lectures - Autumn 2008

Human disease in the post-genome era

Speaker: Dr Nicole Soranzo
1 November

The completion of the Human Genome Project five years ago has revolutionised the field of human disease genetics. The information generated by this project has fuelled a progress in knowledge that is unparalleled in the history of human medicine, resulting in the discovery of many novel genetic risk factors for diseases as common as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and many others. Dr Soranzo discussed some basic principles of the Human Genome Project, and provided some examples of how this information has changed our understanding of human disease. She also discussed some of the implications of these novel discoveries for society and medical care.

NICOLE SORANZO was born in Treviso, Italy. She obtained a first class degree cum laude in Biological Sciences at the University of Milan and this was followed by a Ph.D in Genetics at the University of Dundee. Since July 2007 she has been a geneticist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge. Earlier she tutored in biology and then in genetics at Milan. Holder of a number of awards, she is also a prolific contributor to a variety of professional journals.