About the Biomedical Informatics Hub

A Wellcome Trust ISSF project

The Wellcome Trust awarded the University a £1.5million  Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) to:

• Create a virtual Biomedical Informatics Hub that will help maximise output from emerging technologies and large datasets.
• Establish an ISSF Seed Corn Fund to support highly-talented emerging researchers to generate preliminary data in support of independent fellowship and research project grant applications.

The three year award is being match-funded by the University through support for new academic posts that will use the Biomedical Informatics Hub to enable major advances in interdisciplinary biomedical research.

Biomedical Informatics Hub

The growth of interdisciplinary science at Exeter means that no single researcher or research group can master every technique or methodology. The pace of change in fields such as DNA sequencing, metabolomics and microscopy means that new informatics methodologies and new computational infrastructures are required to interrogate and integrate data from different methodologies.

The Hub is helping researchers make the most of biomedical data. It is made up of some of the most talented researchers in their fields who have recognised that the analysis of datasets, both large and small, is the key bottleneck in many projects.

The Hub also offers training courses to any technician, PhD student, postdoc or academic within the University. These range from basic skills such as Linux and programming to data analysis in R, and specialized courses in genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics.

Whether you are a researcher in psychology with an interest in the genetic basis behind a particular condition, a clinician looking for markers or at new treatments, or a researcher wanting to get the most out of your datasets - please discuss your ideas with a Hub member. We are here to help you to produce world class research.