Professor Chris Ponting is Chair of Medical Bioinformatics at Edinburgh University and a Principal Investigator at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine. His research group has made substantial contributions to protein science, evolutionary biology, genetics and genomics. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous medical journals including Genome Research, Genome Biology, Human Molecular Genetics, Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics and Trends in Genetics. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and is Principal Investigator for the Decode ME study over the next 4 years.
Professor Ponting took time out from his busy schedule to talk about the Decode ME study that seeks to understand the causes of ME. In turn, this should help with the discovery of effective treatments for ME which are so desperately needed.
The study will be the largest ever biomedical study of ME as it needs 20,000 participants. If you would like to register an interest in participating in the study then please use the link below.
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Source: ME Association. July 29, 2020