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G2MC Featured Early Career Investigator: Dr Hasani Hewavitharana

G2MC News and Events G2MC Featured Early Career Investigator: Dr Hasani Hewavitharana For this special edition of our Early Career Investigator (ECI) Series, we’re speaking with Dr Hasani Hewavitharana, whose project was voted Best Presentation at G2MC’s 7th International Conference last October. “My presentation was on the phenotypic and genotypic landscape of a cohort of … Read more

G2MC Rare Genetic Disorders Flagship Project: Moving Forward with Project Scale-Up

G2MC News and Events G2MC Rare Genetic Disorders Flagship Project: Moving Forward with Project Scale-Up Leaders of G2MC’s Rare Genetic Disorders Flagship Project met in February to discuss a potential scale-up of the pilot project “Genomic Medicine Clinics for Rare Genetic Disorders,” a collaborative effort with the University of Maryland, which kicked off in 2021 … Read more

Family Health History Flagship Project: Update on 2024 Project Plan and Other Group Initiatives

G2MC News and Events Family Health History Flagship Project: Update on 2024 Project Plan and Other Group Initiatives The G2MC Family Health History (FHH) Flagship Project group is moving forward with its 2024 FHH project plan. This generalizable list of 11 steps includes a series of collaborative activities, from early planning to sharing successes, in … Read more

G2MC Rare Diseases Pilot Project: Patient Impact Story, Johannesburg, South Africa

G2MC News and Events G2MC Rare Diseases Pilot Project: Patient Impact Story, Johannesburg, South Africa The G2MC pilot project “Genomic Medicine Clinics for Rare Genetic Disorders” kicked off in 2021 with funding from the RTW Foundation.  In 2023 the project completed its goal of implementing exome sequencing for the diagnosis of rare uncharacterized and undiagnosed … Read more

G2MC Featured Early Career Investigator: Dr. Thushara Priyawansha, Sri Lanka

G2MC News and Events G2MC Featured Early Career Investigator: Dr. Thushara Priyawansha, Sri Lanka We’re excited to continue our G2MC Early Career Investigator (ECI) Series with our final interview of 2023. We’re speaking with Dr. Thushara Priyawansha from Sri Lanka, whom we caught up with in the UK where he’s attending the Manchester Centre for … Read more

FHH Flagship Project Group Shares Ambitious Plan and Goals for 2024

G2MC News and Events FHH Flagship Project Group Shares Ambitious Plan and Goals for 2024 During the G2MC 7th International Conference, held in October 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Family Health History (FHH) Flagship Project group announced a significant and aggressive program for 2024. The goal is to follow a ‘universal’ or ‘generalizable’ FHH project … Read more

Insights from ASHG’s Annual Meeting: Day Two

G2MC News and Events Insights from ASHG’s Annual Meeting: Day Two During the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2023 Conference, our own Dr. Scott Sundseth, Program Director of the International Health Cohorts Consortium (IHCC), had the pleasure of interviewing Walter Wolfsberger, a scientist hailing from Ukraine. Walter is a primary member of a unique … Read more