BBSRC New Investigator Award given to Surrey academic for research into genes and the body clock

BBSRC New Investigator Award given to Surrey academic for research into genes and the body clock: "Dr Simon Archer of the University of Surrey School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences has recently been granted a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) New Investigator Award for £380,948 over three years to further his research into circadian clock gene polymorphisms, or how differences in DNA sequences among individuals, groups, or populations can affect body clocks to make them ‘larks’ or ‘owls’ with regards sleep and sleeping patterns.

The grant, which will enable the employment of a full-time postdoctorate researcher, will specifically allow Dr Archer to study in more depth the two different variants of the PER3 polymorphism that he has already shown to be associated with extreme morning preference and delayed sleep phase syndrome."