Our final session is a panel with Abby Douglas, Eddie Cliff of Peter Mac Cancer Centre & The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Katherine Howell of Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and A/Prof Mary Ann Anderson of Peter Mac Cancer Centre & WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute).

Congrats to MCRI's A/Prof Rachel Conyers, Prof Paul Lockhart and Dr Katherine Howell, who have received MRFF Genomics Health Futures Mission Grants | Australian Genomics Mark Butler MP Australian Department of Health and Aged Care A/Prof Rachel Conyers
Learn more: mcri.edu.au/news/awards/th…

📢📢Incredible fully-funded PhD application... please reach out as we are interviewing now! Here's an opportunity to do impactful research to change outcomes for families living with rare and severe epilepsies unsw.edu.au/research/hdr/o…

The clinical, imaging, pathological and genetic landscape of bottom-of-sulcus dysplasia - my PhD cohort published in Brain!!🧡
Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)
University of Melbourne
The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
#epilepsy
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Such a fun night celebrating a great collaboration! Looking forward to round 2 in Toronto later this month…

Come see our poster today! Poster no 1112 GeneSTEPS study recently published in Lancet Neurology
Shifting the paradigm of genetic diagnosis: international multi-centre pilot study of rapid genome sequencing in neonatal and infantile epilepsy 🧬 #IEC2023 ILAE

YESSSSSSSS, congratulations Matthew Coleman!!!

The #IPCHiP research team, including #SKResearch from Drs. Greg Costain & Vann Chau, used rapid #GenomeSequencing to uncover a genetic diagnosis for 43% of infants with unexplained #epilepsy in only a few weeks.

Read more about the The Lancet Neurology study➡️ bit.ly/45ujwtJ

Why wait? Rapid whole-genome sequencing unlocks timely answers for infantile epilepsy. Kudos Alissa D’Gama, Epilepsy Genetics Program & their international colleagues: ms.spr.ly/60199PGS9 #epilepsyresearch #genomics

PLEASE RT🧬: Ask your MP to support a ban on genetic discrimination! Right now, the gov is considering policy change on this issue. You can help bring about change. Use this simple tool to find your MP & send an email: discrimination.good.do/ban_genetic_di…
Report here: doi.org/10.26180/23564…

Congratulations to our fantastic collaboration showing how transformational early genetic diagnosis is in infants with epilepsy thelancet.com/action/showPdf…

The IPCHiP project led by Dr amy mctague UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has provided powerful evidence for the benefits of rapid genomic sequencing in infants under one year old, with new-onset epilepsy - as 43% of patients received a diagnosis within weeks ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/aug/…

'Without that early intervention, I don't know where Levi would be today,' mum Karsha told Herald Sun. Murdoch Children's has co-led #research into rapid genome sequencing and infantile #epilepsy , providing critical answers to families.
@DrKBhowell #raredisease #neuroscience

Delighted to share this out today in Lancet Neurology! Evaluation of the feasibility, diagnostic yield, and clinical utility of rapid genome sequencing in infantile epilepsy (Gene-STEPS): an international, multicentre, pilot cohort study - thelancet.com/journals/laneu…

🤗Delighted to see this out The Lancet Neurology 🤗

Rapid WGS in infantile epilepsy ⏱️🧬🧠

Multi-centre study 🌏🇬🇧🇦🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦

Massive congrats Katherine Howell Alissa D’Gama Prof Ingrid Scheffer Epilepsy Genetics Program amy mctague and all involved! 👏👏👏

Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS) Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)

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Thank you so much, Sarah Booth, for covering Levi’s story, and the work of our new paper! thelancet.com/action/showPdf…

And here’s the link to the paper: thelancet.com/action/showPdf…

PhD opportunity UNSW!
Support families of children with severe epilepsies in Australia
-Location: Sydney or Melbourne
-Employment: 3 years full-time
-Scholarship: AUD$35,000 for the first year
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