In this episode of the G Word, Lois Gulliford, Legal Counsel at Genomics England, is joined by Sarah Justine Kerruish, Chief Strategy Officer at Kheiron Medical, Hélène Guillaume Pabis, Founder and CEO of Wild.AI and Emilia Molimpakis, CEO and Founder of thymia, to discuss how to tackle bias in healthtech. With growing concerns about the safety of AI prompted by rapid technological advancements, a crucial question arises: how can we guarantee the equitable and unbiased utilisation of AI? Our...

In this episode of our explainer podcasts, we’ve asked Jamie Ellingford, Lead Genome Data Scientist for Rare Disease at Genomics England, to explain what bioinformaticians do and how they're involved in the study of genomes, in less than 10 minutes. You can also find a series of short videos explaining some of the common terms you might encounter about genomics on our YouTube channel. You can read the transcript here: What-is-a-bioinformatician.docx If you’ve got any questions, or have any...

In this episode of the G Word, Naimah Callachand, Head of Product Marketing at Genomics England, is joined by Dr Rich Scott, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy CEO at Genomics England, and Professor Zornitza Stark, clinical geneticist at the Victorian Clinical Genetic Services in Melbourne, to discuss their recent paper published in the Nature Review's Genetics journal on 'Genomic newborn screening for rare diseases'. Rich and Zornitza discuss and compare newborn screening practices on a global...

In this episode of our explainer podcasts, we’ve asked Dr Prabhu Arumugam, Director of Clinical Data and Imaging at Genomics England, to explain multimodal data in less than 10 minutes. You can also find a series of short videos explaining some of the common terms you might encounter about genomics on our YouTube channel. You can read the transcript here: What-is-multimodal-data.docx If you’ve got any questions, or have any other topics you’d like us to explain, feel free to contact us...

In this episode of the G Word, Chris Wigley, CEO at Genomics England, is joined by renowned physician-geneticist, Dr Francis Collins, best known for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his previous leadership of the international Human Genome Project. Dr Collins currently serves as a Senior Investigator in the intramural program of the National Human Genome Research Institute and as a Senior Advisor to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director. Dr Collins is the longest...

In this episode of our explainer podcasts, we’ve asked Emma McCargow, Programme Lead for the cancer programme at Genomics England, to explain in less than 10 minutes, the difference between long-read and short-read sequencing. You can also find a series of short videos explaining some of the common terms you might encounter about genomics on our YouTube channel. You can read the transcript here: Long-read-vs-short-read-sequencing.docx If you’ve got any questions, or have any other topics...

In this episode of the G Word, Helen Webb, Product Lead for the bioinformatics pipeline at Genomics England, is joined by Dr Prabs Arumugam, Director of Clinical Data and Imaging and Caldicott Guardian for Genomics England and Kirsty Russell, Product Manager for cancer long-read sequencing at Genomics England, as they speak to Lizzie Mordey, a clinical trials coordinator, whose husband Stevie sadly passed away last year after receiving a sarcoma diagnosis. On average, 15 people in the UK are...

In this episode of our explainer podcasts, we’ve asked Natalie Banner, Director of Ethics at Genomics England, to answer in less than 15 minutes: what is the National Genomic Research Library and what is it used for? You can also find a series of short videos explaining some of the common terms you might encounter about genomics on our YouTube channel. You can read the transcript here: What-is-the-National-Genomic-Research-Library.docx If you’ve got any questions, or have any other topics...

In this episode of The G Word, Dave McCormick, member of the Participant Panel at Genomics England is joined by Jenny Taylor*, a valued member of our research community, and Professor Matt Brown, our Chief Scientific Officer, to discuss the last decade of genomic research at Genomics England. During this podcast our guests will consider: Is the National Genomic Research Library (NGRL) meeting its full potential? What is the future direction for research at Genomics England? How will Genomics...

For our World Sickle Cell Day episode of The G Word, Marie Nugent, Community Manager for the Diverse Data initiative at Genomics England, is joined by John James OBE, CEO of the Sickle Cell Society, and Suzannah Kinsella from the James Lind Alliance. They discuss the new priority setting partnership for sickle cell and genomics, including the longer-term plan to engage communities to create space for learning and trust building, and the importance of the patient-voice in setting research...

In this episode of explainer podcast, we’ve asked Greg Elgar, Director of Sequencing R&D here at Genomics England, to clarify in less than 10 minutes, what is whole genome sequencing. You can also find a series of short videos explaining some of the common terms you might encounter about genomics on our YouTube channel. You can read the transcript here: What-is-whole-genome-sequencing.docx If you’ve got any questions, or have any other topics you’d like us to explain, feel free to contact...

In this episode of the G Word, Shelley Simmonds, member of the Participant Panel at Genomics England, speaks to Louise Fish, CEO of Genetic Alliance UK, and Amanda Pichini, clinical lead for genetic counselling for Genomics England, to discuss how the patient journey has changed over the last 10 years for those living with rare conditions. This year, we're celebrating our 10-year anniversary, and in this special episode our guests will delve into how we can continue to strengthen the...

In this episode of the G Word, Vivienne Parry, the Head of Public Engagement at Genomics England, is joined by Helen Dolling, a researcher at the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge, Kym Winter, the Clinical Director and founder of Rare Minds, and Melanie Watson, the Lead Genetic Counsellor for the Wessex Clinical Genetic Services, to discuss the impact that a genetic diagnosis can have on mental health for both the person directly affected and their wider family. For...

We're going back to basics today, and in this explainer podcast, we’ve asked Greg Elgar, Director of Sequencing R&D here at Genomics England, to clarify in less than 10 minutes, exactly what is a genome. You can also find a series of short videos explaining some of the common terms you might encounter about genomics on our YouTube channel. You can read the transcript here: What-is-a-genome.docx If you’ve got any questions, or have any other topics you’d like us to explain, feel free to...

In this weeks' episode of the G Word, Naimah Callachand, Head of Product Marketing at Genomics England, is joined by Tiggy Johnstone-Burt, a Macmillan Genomics Clinical Fellow and a clinical nurse specialist, Vicky Cuthill, a nurse consultant, and Sally Shillaker, a health visitor and practice development lead in genomics, to discuss how both nurses and health visitors play a vital role in the patient care pathway for those who have received a genetic diagnosis. For this years' International...

In this episode of the G Word, our Director of Ethics, Dr Natalie Banner, is joined by Dr Nicola Byrne, the National Data Guardian for health and adult social care in England. Listen to find out more about the challenges of data governance in healthcare, people’s relationship to their health and care data, the importance of transparency and accountability in how data is used to support better outcomes from health and care services.  The National Data Guardian is responsible for ensuring that...

People often use the terms genetics and genomics interchangeably, but is this right? In the first of a series of explainer podcasts, we’ve asked Dr Rich Scott, Chief Medical Officer, and Deputy CEO here at Genomics England, to clarify in less than 10 minutes, exactly what these two terms mean and when we should use them. You can also find a series of short videos explaining some of the common terms you might encounter about genomics on our YouTube channel. You can read the transcript here:...

A survey of over 2000 British adults conducted by the Genetics Society found that trust in genetics is high and went up significantly during the pandemic. In this episode of the G Word our Head of Public Engagement, Vivienne Parry OBE, is joined by guests, Dr Adam Rutherford, geneticist, author, and broadcaster, Professor Laurence Hurst, Professor of evolutionary genetics and  Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution and Dr Cristina Fonseca, Head of Engagement and Communications at...

The Errol McKellar Foundation focuses on giving presentations and talks around the UK to raise the awareness of important men’s health issues, especially prostate cancer. Friends of Caswell Thompson (FOCT) is an organisation set up for, and dedicated to, raising awareness about prostate cancer in the BAME communities in Bristol and surrounding towns and villages through a range of activities, with a particular focus on reaching black men, in whom the incidence of prostate cancer is 1 in 4,...

Today, on The G Word, Lyra Nightingale, our ethics lead at Genomics England, is joined by Professor Anneke Lucassen and Dr Faranak Hardcastle in a deep discussion about ethics and data. They discuss the neutrality of data, cultural humility in research, the role of structural racism in science and the role of co-production in diversity.  "Data is not neutral, or objective, because they don't exist in a vacuum. And they are produced by processes that we put them through, we curate them, we...

Dr. Jack Bartram is a leading Consultant Paediatric Haematologist based at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London. Dr. Bartram is a recognised world leader in paediatric haematological malignancies, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, molecular diagnostics in blood cancer, and paediatric non-malignant haematology problems. On this episode of The G Word, we take a look back at Dr. Jack Bartram's session at the Genomics England Research Summit in the summer of 2022. He explores the...

What is the impact of the participant data from the 100,000 Genomes Project? Rebecca Middleton and Jillian Hastings Ward explore these questions and discuss how the science has evolved at Genomics England with our CEO, Chris Wigley, Head of Translational Genomics, Dr Suzi Walker (a.k.a. the gene detective!) and Clinical Director and Director of Quality, Dr Ellen Thomas. We are taking you back to the Reanalysis Webinar for Participants, where Jillian, Chair of the Participant Panel, and...

As we draw a close to 2022, Chris Wigley takes us through the best parts of the year in this short but sweet episode of The G Word. From our 10 year anniversary to GERS 2022 to our inspiring patient stories, Genomics England has achieved many milestones this year. We have enjoyed the privilege to speak to so many incredible people from across the world to talk about what we love most, genomics.    Thank you to our wonderful listeners, see you in 2023!

Nicola Perrin MBE, who is a new non-executive director on the Genomics England Board, has also recently been appointed to the Board of UK Biobank, as well as being the CEO of the Association of Medical Research Charities that AMRC, an organisation that brings together and supports over 150 health and medical charities to enable and support high-quality research. View our transcript here: https://files.genomicsengland.co.uk/documents/Podcast-transcripts/Nicola-Perrin.docx  "Don't underestimate...

This week we are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the announcement of the 100,000 Genomes Project.To mark this ground-breaking project, our Head of Public Engagement, Vivienne Parry OBE, is joined by two guests who have played a critical role over the last 10 years: Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, who led the strategic oversight and delivery of the project, and Jillian Hastings Ward, Chair of the Participant Panel at Genomics England. Jillian and her family joined the project in 2015, in...