A centre for sequencing the human genome and a laboratory for testing foods with medicinal properties will be built thanks to a £131m grant to the Medical University of Bialystok.
An Eastern European Centre for Human Genome Sequencing, a Centre for Data Collection and Transmission, a Nutraceutical Laboratory, and an Oncology Biobank will be built at the Centre for Innovative Research of the Medical University of Białystok. All thanks to PLN 131.6 million in funding from the Podlaskie Voivodeship Regional Operational Programme 2017-2020.
Researchers from Bialystok will look for new markers for early detection of civilisation diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cancer or diseases of the central nervous system, such as Alzheimer's disease. They will also search for their effective individualised therapy. Their research will rely on cutting-edge technologies such as genomics, which is the field that deals with the genome of organisms, transcriptomics, which deals with determining where and when genes are active, and state-of-the-art medical imaging methods.
Source: Rzeczpospolita, rp.pl