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  • Atrial fibrillation - irregular heart rhythm - affects around 1.4 million UK people.

  • The safe storage of nuclear waste is a major environmental challenge as spent fuel from fission reactors remains radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. Professor Kostya Trachenko has made a crucial contribution in this field.

  • This project has sequenced 100,000 genomes from around 85,000 patients affected by rare disorders and cancers – making the UK a world leader in genomic medicine.

  • Professor Julia Hörnle and her team explored the risks of online gambling, including addiction, minors playing, indebtedness, fraud, money-laundering and manipulation of sports.

  • Researchers at Queen Mary have developed an easy-to-use urine test to detect pancreatic cancer. This, in combination with an algorithm-based risk score, may offer earlier detection of the cancer, and offer a significantly better prognosis.

  • This remarkable project sequences 100,000 genomes from circa 85,000 patients affected by rare disorders and cancers – making the UK a world leader in genomic medicine.

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  • Queen Mary researchers have been instrumental in setting up two national tissue banks to study breast and pancreatic cancer– and the work they are doing with bioinformatics makes the most of the data they gather.

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