Khoury recently retired from the CDC after a 40-year public health career, including 26 years leading the Office of Public ...

The UK is a recognised powerhouse for genomic science and medicine. Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project is the largest sequencing project of its kind in the world and, building on these ...

The term ‘mainstreaming’ was first used in 2003 by the Secretary of State for Health in the context of the genetics white paper Our Inheritance, Our Future when he argued that genomics must move from ...

The rapid development, approval and roll out of multiple vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is an impressive achievement for science and healthcare. The virus genome was ...

The UK government has launched a new alliance to sequence the genomes of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic. Backed by a £20 million investment, the COVID-19 Genomics ...

On Friday the High Court ruled on the case of ABC v St George’s NHS Trust (and other NHS defendants). This is a significant decision with implications for a wide range of healthcare professionals ...

The European Health Data Space Regulation has arrived but will its mandatory sharing requirement be its tour de force or Achilles’ heel? The Regulation amounts to an ambitious and laudable step ...

A recent consultation by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) indicates a welcome new direction for public and patient involvement (PPI). The MHRA proposed new five-year ...

The Wellcome Trust recently announced that they are funding a research programme to investigate synthetic human genomes, and Laura Blackburn, PHG Foundation’s Head of Science, had the opportunity to ...

These plans have been a long time in the making. The intention to produce a strategy ‘to ensure the UK is able to offer a predictive, preventative and personalised health and care service for people ...

The UK is a global leader in genomic research and healthcare, with the NHS Genomic Medicine Service (NHS GMS) the first clinical service to offer whole genome sequencing as part of routine care for ...

Inter-CeBIL is the International Collaborative Biomedical and Innovation Law program involving the law faculties at Copenhagen, Cambridge, Harvard and select other partners. PHG Foundation is ...