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G2MC News and Events Rare Disease Project Awarded Funding for High Throughput Genotyping Equipment The Rare Disease Project was recently awarded funding by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID-Chile) for high throughput genotyping equipment, the first in Chile. This interdisciplinary 4-year project is led by Gabriela Repetto, M.D., a member of the G2MC leadership team, … Read more

G2MC News and Events Scientists for Fair Publication Practices (SfFPP) Scientists for Fair Publication Practices (SfFPP) was founded in 2022 by 4 scientists, including Juergen Reichardt, a member of the G2MC Steering Committee, to address issues in the business of scientific publications. Its origins can be traced back to the botched implementation of a not-fit-for … Read more

G2MC News and Events Genomic Medicine Training Programme for Medical Professionals in Sri Lanka The Department of Anatomy, Genetics and Biomedical Informatics at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka introduced a short course designed to equip medical doctors to integrate genetic and genomic information into their routine clinical practice in January 2021. … Read more

G2MC News and Events G2MC Featured Young Investigator: Peter James Abad For our November G2MC Young Investigator profile, we’re proud to sit down with Nurse and Genetic Counselor, Peter James Abad. Abad is part of the faculty at the University of the Philippines Manila College of Nursing and also an affiliate of the Master of … Read more

G2MC News and Events G2MC Education Working Group Refines Goals, Elicits Suggestions for Future Projects In addition to completing a manuscript authored by members of the Education Working Group and recently published in the Journal of Personalized Medicine, the Education Working Group continues to meet regularly to identify how the collective expertise of the group … Read more

G2MC News and Events Rare and Unknown Disease Project Website Now Live! The Rare and Unknown Disease Project is an interdisciplinary 4-year project, funded by the Chilean Agency for Research and Development (ANID). The project, led by Gabriela Repetto, M.D., a member of the G2MC leadership team, is aimed at evaluating the personal, familial, healthcare … Read more

G2MC News and Events WEDI Publishes Fact Sheet on Data Issues in Clinical Genomics Health IT organization, WEDI, recently published a fact sheet on data issues in clinical genomics. The fact sheet was written by WEDI Genomics Work Group co-chair Grant Wood, who is also part of the G2MC leadership team. The fact sheet summarizes … Read more