Jan 09 2021 Read 403 Times The Alan Turing Institute and The Francis Crick Institute are to jointly fund and support projects where data scientists and medical researchers from both organisations work together, sharing data, expertise and resources, to improve understanding about diseases. The collaboration was launched with funding for four 12-month projects where early career data scientists on secondment to the Turing from a range of universities including Imperial College London, Universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester will work with biomedical data generated by Crick scientists. Dr Rebecca Wilson, head of strategic partnerships at the Crick said: “Bringing together experts with complementary expertise from our neighbouring institutes to work together under this first formal partnership is very exciting.