Congratulations AIMBRAIN team. It’s a privilege to act in support of this pioneering work. VCGS salutes your leadership and vision ANZCHOG 🎗️ RCD Foundation Jordan R. Hansford

🌟 Our team at VCGS is excited to be exhibiting at #WONCASydney2023! 🌟 With 3-condition #genetic #carrierscreening being subsidised by #Medicare from 1 November 2023, we will support GPs with the information they need. 🩺 Register here: bit.ly/3QpcpOJ

🧬Exciting news! 3-condition genetic carrier screening will be subsidised by Medicare from 1 November 2023. 🧬 We offer information, genetic testing, and expert support to help you and your family make informed reproductive choices.🤰👶 Visit: vcgs.org.au/prenatal-genet…

#CongenitalAdrenalHyperplasia (CAH) disrupts hormone production vital for stress and illness responses. VGCS proudly leads the way in CAH screening one year after its addition to #newbornscreening. Read the manuscript here lnkd.in/g-zB8DYn.

🧬 Starting today, all eligible Australians can access subsidised #carrierscreening, thanks to the #Medicare Benefits Schedule. 🧬 VCGS has pioneered #genetic carrier screening since 2006. Read more: vcgs.org.au/news/medicare-…

🧬 Today is Genetic Counsellor Awareness Day. Lisette Curnow speaks about her important role as a Genetic Counsellor at VCGS. Learn more: lnkd.in/g45YhRGZ #IAmAGeneticCounselor #ANZgeneticcounsellors #GCAwarenessDay #GCAD2023

🔬🌐VCGS is proud to be sponsoring this event supporting all Clinical Informaticians in Australia. #Genomics #Bioinformatics #DataScience

🎙 PODCAST: In this episode of The Good GP, Dr. Dr Alison Archibald, Group Leader of Reproductive Genetic Counseling at VCGS and Dr. Krystyna de Lange explore noninvasive prenatal testing (#NIPT), a screening method for #chromosome conditions in the fetus. soundcloud.com/thegoodgp/non-…

🎄Season’s greetings from the VCGS team! Wishing you a joyful and safe holiday season surrounded by friends and loved ones. Here’s to the opportunities and successes that lie ahead in 2024! 🎉

Hot off the press: Our BabyScreen+ list of over 600 actionable genes and conditions that we screen for in our #gNBS pilot now published: gimjournal.org/article/S1098-… Thanks to the great work of Prof Zornitza Stark, Lilian Downie and many others.

Genomic newborn screening is coming but what should we screen for? BabyScreen+ gene list and comparison with international newborn sequencing gene lists now published! Prof Zornitza Stark Seb Lunke gimjournal.org/article/S1098-…

Proud to be involved in delivering this exiting new study! Fully accredited WGS for over 600 conditions as part of this genomic new born screening pilot Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI). Read about what we are screening for and how it compares internationally 👇👇👇

“Even with a two-, three-week turnaround time, that’s clearly still not fast enough....I was very keen to make it even faster.” #MCRI and Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS) Prof Zornitza Stark has discussed challenges & triumphs of rapid #genomic sequencing in nature⬇️|Prof Zornitza Stark go.nature.com/49CewVV

VCGS was pleased to welcome Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and Medical Research Minister Ben Carroll to announce the addition of the inclusion of SMA and SCID in the newborn screening program today. Read Mariana’s story: lnkd.in/gvAum2QQ Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Victorian Department of Health

Congratulations to Prof Prof Zornitza Stark, Clinical Geneticist at VCGS, who has won the Human Genome Org HUGO Chen Award of Excellence for accelerating rare disease diagnosis! 🔬🌟 #genetics #genomics

Out now Nature Medicine 🔥🔥 #genomic NBS: the challenges are daunting But we have a responsibility to lead research in public health systems 🇬🇧🇦🇺 Exeter Rare Disease Richard Scott Siddharth Banka Louise Fish Sarah Wynn Dominic Wilkinson James Buchanan Daniel MacArthur nature.com/articles/s4159…

📣 our latest BabyScreen+ paper now out European Journal of Human Genetics Process changes needed to deliver #genomic NBS: what, when and who? Key informant interviews 🇦🇺 👉rdcu.be/dLzRV 👏Stephanie Best Erin Tutty Dr Alison Archibald Lilian Downie Prof Clara Gaff Dr Danya Vears Seb Lunke

VCGS/MCRI and the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation were pleased to welcome Victorian Minister for Health, Mary-Anne Thomas to announce a subsidy for an advanced diagnostic test for brain tumours. Read the full story: vcgs.org.au/news/brain-can… Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Victorian Department of Health

Congrats to MCRI Prof Daniel MacArthur who has received a #MRFF Genomics Health Futures Mission grant to establish a genetic disease consortium. | #MedicalResearch Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS) Garvan Institute of Medical Research Enrico Coiera Read more 👉mcri.edu.au/news-stories/f…

Translating the outcomes of this project will be transformative for mainstreaming #genomics in Australian healthcare. Exciting times!