NIHR BRC Next Generation Phenotyping and Diagnostics

The NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Next Generation Phenotyping and Diagnostics (NGPD) Bioinformatics Team is composed of four researchers within the Wedge group. Led by Maria Jakobsdottir, the team collaborate on and drive the computational analysis of various interdisciplinary research projects across the Manchester BRC and the University of Manchester.

The aim of the team is to improve classification and understanding of complex diseases with a view to improving diagnostic capability and identifying actionable insights through integration of large data sets and development of novel data analysis and integration methods. In contrast to the rest of the Wedge group whose primary research focus is cancer, the BRC NGPD bioinformatics team works across a number of disease areas affecting the population of Greater Manchester and beyond.

The wider BRC NGPD theme is spearheaded by Professor Graeme Black, Professor Rachel Lennon, and Professor David Wedge.