genetics is a thriving research community at newcastle university that includes researchers in various locations, such as the life science centre, who work alongside many clinical, commercial and educational organisations. our research encompasses a range of topics in stem cell biology, human and medical genetics, genomics and precision medicine. we offer supervision for mphil, phd and md in a variety of areas including: cancer genetics and genome instability cardiovascular genetics and development genomics and precision medicine complex disease and quantitative genetics developmental genetics gene expression and regulation in normal development and disease genetics of neurological disorders kidney genetics and development mitochondrial disease neuromuscular genetics stem cell biology