Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Prof Aroon HIngorani, Director, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science

Greater understanding of how genetic differences influence disease susceptibility and drug response has potentially important healthcare applications. This lecture, marking Heart Awareness Month, will focus on some of the opportunities and challenges of using genomic information to improve personal and public health, using cardiovascular disease as an example.

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Genomics and Healthcare (28 Feb 2013)

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