Prof Paul Pharoah is a Professor in the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. He qualified in medicine from the University of Oxford and subsequently ...

Discover how research is uncovering links between climate change, environmental exposures, and genomics to inform future healthcare and public health strategies.

BlogWhat the UK Biobank data exposure should mean for the Health Data Research ServiceWednesday May 13, 2026Potential fallout from the recent UK Biobank data exposure - and similar cases - highlights ...

The European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 and it forms part of current UK law. A long and complex piece of legislation, the GDPR governs the processing of ...

Sobia Raza is Head of Digital Technology, Climate and Health and Infectious Diseases at the Wellcome Trust. She is also an Associate of the PHG Foundation, where she assists with the delivery of the ...

Cell-free fetal nucleic acids for non-invasive prenatal diagnosis is the result of a project funded and led by the PHG Foundation. An expert Working Group including GPs, obstetricians, midwives, ...

Stem cells are unique in that they can develop into different kinds of specialised cells that make up the tissues and organs of the body. This ability, together with their capacity to continuously ...

Advances in clinical genomics have been enabled by short-read sequencing (SRS) technologies, where the DNA is broken into pieces up to 300 base pairs long. While these technologies have many ...

Genomic technologies have the potential to transform the management of infectious diseases. In Pathogen Genomics Into Practice we set out a roadmap to converting the power of this exciting new ...

Dr. Chantal Babb de Villiers uses her expertise in genetics, healthcare, diagnostics, and epidemiology to contribute to many PHG Foundation projects including polygenic scores and technology ...

The potential of polygenic scores to improve risk stratification has reignited enthusiasm around the use of genetic information to help predict and prevent common disease. A new report from the PHG ...

In Artificial intelligence for genomic medicine we examine the intersection between AI and genomics, the drivers behind the recent rise of AI techniques for genomics and outline existing and emerging ...