Genomics for Health and Society
19 April 2013
The Royal Society, London
Science Programme Podcast with Mark Henderson, winner of the first JBS Haldane Medal Podcast with Prof Sir Alec Jeffereys, winner of the 2013 Genetics Society Medal Podcast with Prof Sir John Burn Podcast with organiser Matt Hurles Gallery
Genomics promises to revolutionize medicine and health care, with the potential for highly personalised treatments for the very first time. This meeting will focus on these and related issues, with presentations on clinical and societal issues that arise from these new horizons.
This meeting is jointly organised by the Genetics Society and the British Society of Human Genetics, and brings together experts in diverse domains, from DNA fingerprinting to consumer genomics, from genealogy to genomic medicine, from the legal implications of genomics to the therapeutic opportunities.
Speakers
Kate Bushby University of Newcastle
Sir John Burn University of Newcastle
Jim Lupski Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Mark Henderson Head of Communications, Wellcome Trust
Jane Kaye University of Oxford
Mark Jobling University of Leicester
Sir Alec Jeffreys University of Leicester
Scientific Organisers
Matt Hurles
Chris Ponting
Bill Newman
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19 April, 2013
