Elspeth Bruford
Associate Editor in Computational Resources, Software, and Databases

Elspeth Bruford is currently a Director of Research at the University of Cambridge and leads the HUGO (Human Genome Organisation) Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC, www.genenames.org), the sole authority worldwide for naming human genes. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh (MRC Human Genetics Unit) for studying the genetics of inherited retinal disorders, and joined the HGNC in 1998. In 2007 she relocated the HGNC group from University College London, UK to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) at Hinxton, UK where she was a Group Coordinator until 2018.  In 2016, HGNC established a sister project, the Vertebrate Gene Nomenclature Committee (VGNC, vertebrate.genenames.org), which provides standardized nomenclature for key vertebrates and coordinates with existing vertebrate naming groups.

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