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

Family Health History (FHH) Genealogy Industry Partners

Growth in the genealogy industry offers great potential for potential partnerships that could drive the effort to implement family health history into clinical care worldwide. G2MC invites genealogy companies, societies, and individual hobbyists to join us in our efforts to make family health history an integral part of family and patient clinical care across the globe.

Family Health History (FHH) Multinational Project

G2MC is looking for partners and funders to support a global multi-site demonstration project to capture and use family health history data in support of genomic-based healthcare for every patient. The project will span from low to high resource countries and participants will come from a wide range of capabilities, from just getting started (no online tools or genetic counselors), to reaching the next level from what they have been doing for years.

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

Reporting from ASHG’s Annual Meeting: Day One

G2MC News and Events Reporting from ASHG’s Annual Meeting: Day One In November, our own Dr. Scott Sundseth, Program Director of the International Health Cohorts Consortium (IHCC), had the privilege of attending the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2023 Annual Meeting. It was an exciting opportunity for Scott to connect with some remarkable individuals … Read more