Andy Bretherick

PhD Student

Andy completed his PhD in 2019, co-supervised by Chris Haley and Chris Ponting. He used protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) and Mendelian randomisation to identify proteins on causal pathways to disease.( PLoS Genetics 2020, Nature 2020, Nature 2022, Nature 2023 ) He also recoded our physiological model of oxygen delvery.

He left to lead his own research group at the Institute for Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, and to work as a consultant in pain medicine.