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Developing Gene Therapy for treatment of Cystic Fibrosis
Major additional funding from the CF Trust in support of the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium.
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Affective Disorder
Pursuing the genetic and biological causes of major psychiatric illnesses
Translation elongation factors in health and disease
Studying the roles of translation elongation factors in conditions from motor neuron disease to cancer.
Genetics of stroke and primary and secondary prevention of Stroke
Projects in stroke prevention, systematic reviews of randomised trials and of observational studies, epidemiological differences between lacunar ischaemic stroke and other stroke subtypes, and genetic risk factors for stroke.
Family and population based studies of Common Complex Disease
The aim of Generation Scotland is to create an ethically sound, family- and population-based infrastructure to identify the genetic basis of common complex diseases.
