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Chronomic
Medicine

Combining Genomic Medicine and Chronobiology

Department of Medical Genetics · University of Cambridge

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We discover how circadian clocks contribute to genetic disease

The Chronomic Medicine group takes a comparative biology approach — spanning humans, zebrafish and plants — to investigate how chronobiology impacts 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, there is vast unexplored potential for the clock in rare disease, variable phenotypes and therapeutic timing.

Our PI's lead involvement in the Cambridge Genomic Medicine Programme gives a unique opportunity to realise this. We take MPhil and MSt students each year and welcome clinical collaborators.

Circadian Clocks & Cardiac Disease

How circadian timing influences cardiac arrhythmias, Long QT syndrome and UBR4 pathways.

Immunity, Cancer & Rare Disease

Circadian gene networks in Lynch Syndrome cancers, rheumatoid arthritis and adrenal hyperplasia.

Chrono-Pharmacogenomics

Genetic variants that alter drug responses across the circadian cycle — time-aware precision medicine.

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tjh70@cam.ac.uk

Laboratory

Dept of Medical Genetics, Level 6, Addenbrooke's Treatment Centre

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School of Clinical Medicine

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The Pightle, Newnham College

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