Dr Elspeth Bruford

Project Co-ordinator
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC)


Email: elspeth@ebi.ac.uk
Webpage link: http://www.genenames.org

Elspeth A. Bruford received her Ph.D. mapping retinal diseases at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh. After working in publishing, she moved to University College London in 1998 to join the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, of which she is now the Project Co-ordinator. From 2000-2007 she was also the Managing Editor of the Annals of Human Genetics. In 2007 Elspeth gained funding from the Wellcome Trust and NHGRI to relocate the HGNC to the European Bioinformatics Institute at Hinxton, UK. Elspeth plays an active role in the annotation of the human genome, including collaborations with all the major human genome sequencing centres and participation in the H-Invitational, and has attended all of the last eight HGM meetings.