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We are unashamed champions of personalised health. And we are critical friends. Here's what we are doing to make personalised health work for population health.
The concept of personalised health is at the centre of a renewed NHS and its 10 Year Health Plan, says PHG Trustee, Prof Mike Inouye, as we put 'Making personalised health work for population health' ...
Hidden in plain sight: The untapped power of data for personalised health Dr Hayley Wilson identifies the impact that data can have in healthcare, whilst also looking at the current landscape of the ...
Welcoming the 10 year NHS plan, PHG Foundation's Director of External Affairs, Dr Susan Mitchell, cautions that while genomics is a powerful tool in the personalised health kit, we must tread ...
We’re living in the era of big data and it’s opening doors for AI-driven multiomics and health. Biomedical information is being generated extremely quickly. Approximately 40 exabytes (or one billion ...
The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has announced a new inquiry that will explore the antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages (phages), a topic explored by the PHG Foundation in ...
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 ...
Our summary of, and thoughts on, the recently published WHO principles for human genome data collection, access, use and sharing.
We are getting closer to a world where the debilitating pain and complications of sickle cell disease are a thing of the past. For the 17,500 people in the UK living with this genetic condition, this ...
The Wellcome Trust recently announced that they are funding a research programme to investigate synthetic human genomes, and Laura Blackburn had the opportunity to comment for radio coverage of the ...
Metagenomic sequencing in public health – can long read sequencing be used to tackle antimicrobial resistance?