Our mission

Cesagen is committed to building on, and extending, the findings of its current Flagship and related projects to include new collaborations, additional disciplinary perspectives, and a global as well as local perspective. However, to allow more flexibility and facilitate cross-fertilisation (both within Cesagen and across the EGN), Cesagen will structure its research programme around 3 overarching and inter-related Themes: Biomedicine, identity, and behaviour; Therapies and enhancements; and Bio-knowledge economies, publics and sustainable innovation.

 The Cesagen strategic research plan will 

• Work closely with EGN members to build a coherent research profile for the Network as a whole
• Identify and address existing synergies and gaps in the EGN research programme
• Be flexible in order to respond to changing social, scientific and biomedical agendas
• Integrate future research in more focussed and coherent overarching themes building on existing achievements
• Increase overall synergy through complementarity, while developing an interactively engaged but nuanced approach
• Develop the framework and resources for a coherent, evidence-based,  theoretical perspective
• Ensure that  research is of international/worldclass quality
• Communicate reflexively with stakeholders, beneficiaries, users and other ‘publics’
• Deliver an enhanced capacity for addressing, and helping shape, future research agendas in genomics and related fields

Cesagen’s main objective is to work with the relevant genomic science whilst attempting to clarify the human (social and economic) factors which shape these natural knowledges.

ESRC’s Mission

The ESRC’s overall mission for its three Genomics Centres is:-

‘To undertake a systematic, critical and technically informed exploration of the past, present and future economic and social trajectory of genomics to make a major scientific and practical contribution to social science and policymaking at both national and international levels’.