HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology will host the biannual Genomic Medicine Conference March 26-28, 2018. The Genomic Medicine Conference: Empowering Personal Health focuses on advancing knowledge in the field of genomic medicine in a clinical care setting. The interdisciplinary and international program is designed to educate a broad audience – including clinicians and scientists as well

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HudsonAlpha will present, “Genomic Diagnosis for Children with Developmental Delay/Intellectual Disability,” as part of the ACMG Genomics Case Conference series Wednesday, May 17. During The ACMG Genomics Case Conferences, a team from select institutions will present and lead discussions on an intriguing, complex and/or difficult patient case in the area of genomics. The primary focus

In celebration of DNA Day, HudsonAlpha Educational Outreach hosted a social media takeover, or GeneChat, where classrooms, teachers and the public had the chance to interact with scientists, educators, and associate companies at the Insitute. Genetic counselor Whitley Kelley sat down with Educational Outreach to discuss genetic counseling and where genomics is headed in the

Business Alabama magazine recently featured HudsonAlpha researchers in the April issue, which highlighted genomic medicine efforts in Alabama. David Bick, MD; Greg Cooper, PhD; Howard Jacob, Phd; Shawn Levy, PhD; and Liz Worthey, PhD discussed how HudsonAlpha is making advances in the field of genomic medicine, including providing whole genome sequencing to patients with rare, undiagnosed

New UDN data demonstrates the benefits of whole genome sequencing for patients Phoenix, AZ — Findings from a comparison of whole exome sequencing (WES) versus whole genome sequencing (WGS) showed that clinical WGS can provide diagnostic answers even where a prior WES did not. Liz Worthey, PhD, a faculty investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute for

HudsonAlpha and Smith Family Clinic for Genomic Medicine presented at the ACMG meeting last week in Phoenix, AZ. David Bick, MD, and Kelly East discussed clinical exome or genome scans for healthy adults, in addition to patients with rare genetic diseases. Bick said he favors the term “elective genome” for genome tests of healthy individuals,