This September, a pioneering centre at the University of Sussex dedicated to research into DNA, gene damage and identifying the cause of a number of human diseases, including cancer, is celebrating its 21st anniversary.
The Genome Damage and Stability Centre GDSC (which was developed from the Sussex Cell Mutation Unit) was amongst the first centres of its kind in the UK, dedicated to understanding DNA damage and repair, and their impact on genome stability and genetic diseases. It was formally opened in 2003 by Nobel Prize winner and Sussex alumni, Sir Paul Nurse, who set up his first research group in biological sciences at Sussex during the 1980s and went on to discover protein molecules that control cell division.
For the past two decades, GDSC has been at the forefront of innovative approaches to identify and discover new genes that are involved in the repair of our DNA, that could help to find cures for genetic diseases, including cancer.
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