Prof. Alexandra Blakemore Imperial College London, UK

Alex Blakemore is a Professor in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction at Imperial College London. He research centres on analysis of how human genetic variation affects human health and disease. This work spans the whole range of human genetics, from single gene defects through genomic disorders, to population-based... read moreanalyses of complex diseases, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Most recently, her group has has concentrated on investigation of genomic integrity – with particular emphasis on the implications of genomic copy number variation (CNV) and telomere length for human health.