Centre PI Dr. Nichola Whiffin awarded Wellcome Beit Prize
11 September 2020
Prof Yvonne Jones wins ERC Advanced Grant
31 March 2020
Launch of the Statistical Genetics initiative in Oxford
21 February 2020
Dr Sergi Padilla-Para awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
12 December 2019
Sir Peter Ratcliffe wins Nobel Prize
7 October 2019
Winners of WHG Public Engagement prize announced.
27 September 2019
The winners of the first annual WHG PE Awards were announced at the centre ‘Away Day’ on the 6th of September.
University of Oxford celebrate successful bids for Wellcome Trust PhD programmes
16 September 2019
Three new funded schemes from the Medical Science Division and MPLS Division have been awarded a four-year PhD programmes in science by the Wellcome Trust.
Prof Sir Peter Donnelly wins 2020 Genetics Society Medal
13 September 2019
Simon Leedham awarded title of Professor
12 August 2019
NEW WHG Director
10 July 2019
Leveraging genetics to help inform drug target discovery
28 June 2019
Identifying targets for drug development is hard with high failure rates in later-stage clinical trials. A new study led by Professor Julian Knight at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics and colleagues from the ULTRA-DD Consortium shows how genetics combined with knowledge of network connectivity can help. The new Priority Index or ‘Pi’ pipeline developed by first-author Dr Hai Fang is open-source and scalable, enabling other researchers to capitalise on their findings. The paper, published today in Nature Genetics, describes the drug target prioritisation landscape for 30 different immune-mediated diseases.
Ross Chapman awarded 2019 Lister Prize
20 June 2019
Prof Peter Donnelly recognised with knighthood
8 June 2019