Prof Chris Ponting

About

Professor Chris Ponting was appointed as Chair of Medical Bioinformatics, Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh in 2016. He is an Investigator at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, where his current research projects include the DecodeME genetics study. Prior to 2016, Chris spent most of his career at the University of Oxford, where he provided leadership in international genome sequencing projects and co-developed an important approach to comprehensively sequence the RNA and DNA from the same single cell. Chris has interdisciplinary expertise across (bio)physics, noncoding RNAs, evolution, gene regulation, and the biology of single cells. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation.