Chronomic
Medicine

Combining genomic medicine and chronobiology

Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Cambridge

About

We study how circadian clocks contribute to genetic disease

The Chronomic Medicine Group takes a comparative biology approach, working across humans, zebrafish and plants, to understand how chronobiology affects human health and disease.

We coined the term chronomic medicine for the application of chronobiology to genomic medicine. With 52% of disease-causing genes predicted to oscillate across the day, the body clock is likely to matter in rare disease, in why the same condition varies between patients, and in when treatments should be given.

Tim has a leading role in the Cambridge Genomic Medicine Programme, and we take MPhil and MSt students from it each year. We also welcome clinical collaborators.

Research