Resource Centre

The MalariaGEN resource centre provides scientific and operational support for the research and training activities of the network. This includes responsibility for the secure management of samples and data contributed to Consortial Projects.

Organisation

The MalariaGEN Resource Centre is a collaboration of Oxford University and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.  MalariaGEN has five expert teams that are embedded in both institutions. The resource centre is directed by Dominic Kwiatkowski.

Lab team

The lab team is responsible for secure archival of samples, for driving forward large-scale genotyping and sequencing experiments, and supporting MalariaGEN investigators in laboratory methods and data management.  More >>

Informatics team

The informatics team is building secure web-based systems for managing and integrating large amounts of clinical and genetic data, with tools to assist MalariaGEN investigators and data fellows to perform complex analyses in a user-friendly way. More >>

Statistics team

The statistics team performs quantitative genomics data analysis and research for MalariaGEN consortial projects, and supports MalariaGEN investigators and data fellows to analyse their data and design new studies, through one-to-one assistance and training workshops. More >>

Ethics team

The ethics team provides support for MalariaGEN investigators in responding to ethical issues, helps to form MalariaGEN policy on issues of ethics and ownership, and does research into the ethical and social implications of the new science of genomic epidemiology. More >>

Programme management team

The programme management team provides support and coordination for MalariaGEN's research programme in malaria-endemic countries, and works to strengthen research capacity at MalariaGEN's partner institutions. More >>