Ulster University (UU)

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Ulster University (UU)
General Description: Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine, Ulster University
Role and Profile of key people: Dr. McGilligan, a Lecturer in Stratified Medicine, leads large cohort studies for locally recruited patients, focusing on risk stratification and novel therapies for inflammatory conditions and cardiovascular diseases. This has resulted in 8 invention disclosures seeking intellectual property protection. Dr. Watterson, a Computational Biology Lecturer, specializes in metabolic modeling in cardiovascular disease and oversees machine learning research. He has contributed to eight invention disclosures for CVD topics under review for intellectual property protection, with recent publications on dynamic modeling of atheroma formation pathways.
Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and equipment: The Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine is a multidisciplinary research centre collocated with Altnagelvin regional hospital, the primary acute care hospital in the northwest of Ireland. We undertake genomics research and proteomic research on locally recruited patient groups obtaining proteomic, genomic and methylomic data on our patient cohorts. We have a team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD researchers who contribute to research, mining these datasets and others to identify novel biomarker combinations with the potential to be commercialised in order to improve the clinical care pathway. Our cardiovascular research team includes consultant surgeons from the cardiac unit of the collocated hospital. We have hosted staff previously on travel bursaries, most notably from Harvard Medical school and would be well placed to host Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and Established Researchers (ERs).
Address: Ulster University, 2-24 York Street, Belfast BT15 1AP