Acute Care Edinburgh

From functional genomics to experimental medicine in critical illness

Kenneth Baillie graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc(Hons) in Physiology in 1999 and MBChB in 2002. He completed basic training in medicine in Glasgow, and in anesthesia in Edinburgh. During this time he led a series of high altitude research projects in Bolivia, and founded a high-altitude research charity, Apex. He was appointed as a clinical lecturer on the ECAT (Edinburgh Clinical Academic Track) at the University of Edinburgh in 2008, and completed a Wellcome Trust-funded PhD in statistical genetics in 2012. He was awarded a Wellcome-Beit Prize Intermediate Clinical Fellowship in 2013. After completing clinical training in 2014 he worked as a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, before returning to the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh to establish a research program in translational applications of genomics in critical care medicine. He works as a consultant in the intensive care unit at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.

Chair: Alasdair Gray

All are welcome

Nov 26 2019 -

From functional genomics to experimental medicine in critical illness

Kenny Baillie, Wellcome-Beit Fellow, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

Lecture Theatre B,
Edinburgh BioQuarter
49 Little France Crescent
Edinburgh
EH16 4SB