Division of Pathway Medicine
The central goal of the Division of Pathway Medicine, a research centre in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, is to integrate post-genomic science with medicine in order to provide a better mechanism-based understanding of disease processes. This will provide the basis for the development of new medical innovations for the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, which the Division is committed to extending to the developing world.
The Division of Pathway Medicine is conducting pioneering research programmes in:
- Host-Pathogen Biology - the study of host-pathogen interaction in immune cells and the modelling of molecular pathways that control immune cell function in health and disease.
- Biochip Medicine in Infectious Diseases - the development of advanced biochip techniques and platforms for translating genomic and pathway research into clinical healthcare.
- Business Connections - to foster relationships between our research and the commercial sector via industrial collaborations and help to implement a business enterprise culture in an academic environment.
