STAGE ISSS: Martin D. Tobin

Join us for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with

Martin D. Tobin

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health
MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow
Genetic Epidemiology Group
Departments of Health Sciences & Genetics
University of Leicester

Talk Title:

Copy Number Variation and Complex Human Disease: Examples of Two Recent Studies

Abstract:

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Speaker Profile:

Martin D. Tobin is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Leicester, UK, and an Honorary Consultant in Public Health (Leicester City Primary Care Trust). Following a broad clinical background encompassing paediatrics and general practice, he specialised in public health and undertook advanced training in epidemiology and genetic epidemiology at the University of Leicester, including his PhD on the genetic epidemiology of blood pressure (with Burton, Sheehan, Samani). Prof. Tobin’s research current empasses genome-wide association studies of lung function, genome-wide association studies of blood pressure, and the study of copy number variation. He co-leads the SpiroMeta consortium for lung function, and has contributed to a number of other consortium studies including the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. He has previously been awarded two (UK) Medical Research Council Fellowships and, in 2010, was awarded a Medical Research Council Senior Clinical Fellowship.

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