The film below documents the Progress Educational Trust event 'Whole Genome Sequencing at Birth: Genomic Data, A Resource from Cradle to Grave?', produced in partnership with Genomics England and its Newborn Genomes Programme.
If you can't see the film embedded above, you can watch it on YouTube.
| Introduction | |
| 0:00:00 | Sarah Norcross Director, Progress Educational Trust |
| Presentations | |
| 0:02:12 | Catherine Joynson Assistant Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics |
| 0:10:38 | Sabine Starr Patient with a rare neurological disorder |
| 0:20:15 | Professor Felicity Boardman Professor of Social Science in Medicine and Genomics, University of Warwick |
| 0:33:59 | Dr Mavis Machirori Senior Researcher, Ada Lovelace Institute |
| 0:45:02 | Phil Booth Coordinator, medConfidential |
| 0:56:56 | Arzoo Ahmed Ethics Lead, Genomics England |
| Discussion | |
| 1:02:28 | Responses to audience questions and comments |
This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.
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