Annual Conference 2024
Progress and challenges implementing genomics into practice and society
Held on 16th October 2024 at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
This event was recorded and is available below.
October 2024 marks 20 years since the publication of the completed sequence of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in Nature. The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium’s outstanding achievement gave rise to great hopes, with the expectation that it would enable ‘researchers around the world to conduct even more precise studies of our genetic instruction book and how it influences health and disease’. How much of this prediction has been realised in the intervening years?
The 2024 conference offered an opportunity to hear about some of the achievements, hurdles and failures of the intervening period from a variety of perspectives: talks included an overview of the scientific and technological advances; how genomics has affected families with rare conditions; population screening for cancer; the evolving ethical landscape; how genetic testing can be used to help prescribing; how epigenetics works, and how the burgeoning data from the human microbiome has cast light on heath inequalities.
Progress and challenges implementing genomics into practice and society
Speakers
Andrew Read – Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics, Manchester FMedSci Centre for Genomic Medicine, University of Manchester and Adelphi Genetics Forum
Sarah Wynn – CEO at Unique – Rare Chromosome Disorder Support Group
Clare Turnbull – Professor of Translational Cancer Genetics, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Cancer Genetics, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Michael Parker – Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford
Bill Newman – Professor of Translational Genomic Medicine, Clinical Director Northwest Genomic Medicine Service Alliance and Honorary Consultant, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Anne Ferguson-Smith – Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, the University of Cambridge Executive Chair – BBSRC
Fergus Shanahan – Professor of Medicine, University College Cork and APC Microbiome Ireland
Steven Sturdy – Professor of the Sociology of Medical Knowledge the University of Edinburgh
