This film documents a conversation between Sarah Norcross (director of the Progress Educational Trust, the charity that publishes BioNews) and Professor Sir Mark Caulfield (outgoing chief scientist at Genomics England) about the past, present and future of NHS genomics.
After stepping down from his role at Genomics England, Sir Mark is taking up the role of chief executive of Barts Life Sciences.
(If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.)
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| The main themes of the conversation are as follows. | |
| 00:00 | Background to the 100,000 Genomes Project |
| 01:49 | Lives transformed by the 100,000 Genomes Project |
| 04:12 | Returning additional findings to participants |
| 06:43 | Embedding genomics in the NHS |
| 09:37 | Why patients and participants must have a say |
| 11:30 | Achievements to date and tasks remaining |
| 12:33 | What if interventions could be made earlier? |
| 14:56 | What if whole genomes were sequenced at birth? |
| 16:26 | A new platform for therapeutic innovation |
| 18:11 | Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 19:54 | Sir Mark's advice for his successor |
During this conversation, Sarah Norcross and Professor Sir Mark Caulfield refer to projects and resources including:
- The 100,000 Genomes Project
- The NHS Genomic Medicine Service
- The NHS National Genomic Test Directory
- The Chief Medical Officer's report Generation Genome
- The Task and Finish Group on Genomic Analysis in Children, whose work contributed to the Treatments for Genetic Disorders compendium (as discussed in this paper)
- The Genetics of Mortality in Critical Care (GenOMICC) project
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