Her role is to promote the development of collaborative research across the diverse groups within the Consortium. The approach taken is to foster a common approach by:
 Holding closed scientific meetings one to two times per annum where members of the Consortium present and discuss recent unpublished data
Seeking funding to allow pooled data collection across the Consortium resulting in much greater power to address scientific issues than would be possible for individual groups and capitalizing on the markedly different environmental exposures across the Consortium (latitude and therefore sun exposure)
Promoting the development of common instruments for the collection of data, common approaches to phenotyping and common data bases
Promoting the exchange of samples between groups
She is assisted greatly by all members of the Leeds group but especially by Linda Whitaker, Clarissa Nolan, Juliette Randerson-Moor, Mark Harland, Tim Bishop and May Chan who all work within the Leeds group. |
