MalariaGEN Investigator - Ioannis Ragoussis

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Dr Ioannis Ragoussis is Head of Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and University Reader in Genomics. He has been providing help and assistance in the QC genotyping of samples within the MalariaGEN Programme.

Dr Ragoussis studied Biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen, Germany were he also received his PhD in Biochemistry in 1988. He received a two year EMBO fellowship to perform post-doctoral studies at the ICRF Laboratories in London, UK, where he became an ICFR fellow. In 1992 he became Lecturer in Medical Genetics at Guy's hospital, where he set up the Genomic Research laboratory and became Reader in Genomic Research at King's College London.

He joined Oxford University's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in October 2001 and set up the microarray and genotyping facilities. Since then he has been working on Functional genomic methodology, including approaches for the quantitative analysis of protein-DNA interactions and the transcriptional response to hypoxia. He is also working on numerous genetics projects (autism, asthma, chlamydia infection) and is involved in the development of methods utilising genomic SNP arrays for copy number analysis. Recently he has set up the WTCHG's Illumina GA II sequencing machines and is collaborating with Bioinformatics, Statistics and the Biomedical Research Centre on what is now becoming one of the UK's largest high-throughput sequencing facilities.

Dr Ragoussis is the recipient of a SEEDA funded business training fellowship in order to promote interactions between the University and industry. In this capacity he is working with companies such as Roche, Oxford Nanolabs, Oxford Gene Technologies and Medical Solutions in order to foster collaborations on genomic technologies and data analysis.