Fully Automated Storage Creates an Open Source for Genetic Epidemiology

By Dr Martin Yuille, Chief Scientific Officer and Dr Cheng-Eng Ang,
MRC DNA Banking Network Manager at MRC geneservice

Dr Martin Yuille is Chief Scientific Officer at MRC geneservice, a branch of the MRC that provides products and services to the biomedical research community. Educated at Oxford and Edinburgh, he undertook post-doctoral research in Genetics and Haematological Oncology at Cambridge, Stanford and State University of New York. He joined the MRC in 2001 from the Institute of Cancer Research in London where he led a team investigating familial leukaemia and discovered the role of the ataxia telangiectasia gene in certain sporadic leukaemias.


Dr Cheng-Eng Ang, educated in Singapore and at Glasgow University obtained her PhD in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Manchester. She went on to pursue post-doctoral research in Molecular Immunology at the Institute of Animal Health in the UK and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore. She was working in a private cord blood banking start-up company before joining MRC geneservice in 2003 as the MRC DNA Banking Network Manager.