The Genetics Podcast
Exploring all things genetics. Dr Patrick Short, University of Cambridge alumnus and CEO of Sano Genetics, analyses the science, interviews the experts, and discusses the latest findings and breakthroughs in genetic research. To find out more about Sano Genetics and its mission to accelerate the future of precision medicine visit: www.sanogenetics.com
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 205
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
EP 45 Steff Di Pardo on Ankylosing Spondylitis and Instagram as a support network for health communities
This week we talk to Steff Di Pardo, a patient advocate and writer who has Ankylosing Spondylitis - which is a chronic autoimmune disease. She talks about the long road to diagnosis, how she started …
00:23:22 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
EP 44 Bringing preventive health to 8 billion people: Peter Würtz from Nightingale Health on their pioneering blood testing platform
We talk to Peter about Nightingale Health's work with the UK Biobank, including recent research that shows their blood test could be used predict severe COVID19 well before onset of symptoms.
The c…
00:39:28 |
Wed 19 Aug 2020
EP 43 Diversity in clinical research and COVID19's impact on people with immune conditions with Dr Sonya Abraham.
Sonya Abraham is a clinical senior lecturer in rheumatology and a research physician at Imperial College London. We talk to her about BAME representation in clinical research and about her rheumatolo…
00:43:23 |
Wed 05 Aug 2020
EP 42 Tapoka Mkandawire on the gut microbiome, neglected tropical diseases, and the power of citizen science
Tapoka Mkandawire is a PhD student in parasitology & genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She studies neglected tropical diseases, which affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide but aren…
00:33:51 |
Wed 29 Jul 2020
EP 41 Keith McArthur, the rare disease dad who is re-writing the rules in order to find a cure for his son - Live Podcast
Keith McArthur is one of the parents re-writing the rules for research in rare disease. Keith is CEO of the CureGRIN foundation, a non-profit backed by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. Keith and his c…
00:50:27 |
Sat 25 Jul 2020
EP 40 Professor Sir Rory Collins on the origins and future of the UKBiobank
Professor Sir Rory Collins, Founder and Chief Executive of the UK Biobank, talks to us this week about the origins of this world-changing project that has catalysed a wave of new discoveries in large…
00:34:58 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Ep 39 How hundreds of scientists from 50 nations are collaborating on Slack to study genetics & COVID19 with Dr Andrea Ganna
Andrea Ganna has been leading COVID19HG, a worldwide effort to understand the role that our genetics plays in COVID-19 infection and severity. In this episode, we discuss some of the group's findings…
00:41:56 |
Thu 09 Jul 2020
EP 38: Big Data in genomics - why we need 'the cloud' and AI to make sense of it all with Dr Maria Chatzou Dunford
Genomic data, is big data - so how do we actually make sense of this huge amount of data? And why should we use 'the cloud’ to store and analyse it? We discuss how the cloud enables faster, safer, an…
00:38:45 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
EP 37: The future of medical research post COVID
This episode covers some of the dramatic changes in the field of medical research as a result of COVID19 making it unsafe for people to visit medical research facilities, and medical professional's t…
00:44:21 |
Wed 10 Jun 2020
EP 36: Genomics England CEO Chris Wigley & Clinical Lead Richard Scott: sequencing 35,000 people with COVID19, the future of genomic medicine, and why patients are their 'north star'
Why do some people have a severe response to COVID-19, and others seem to have no symptoms at all? Is the answer in our genes?
This week we talk to Chris Wigley, the CEO of Genomics England and Inte…
00:25:18 |
Wed 27 May 2020
EP 35: 8 weeks in - what it’s like to have COVID-19 with Adelina Chalmers
This week we talk about COVID19 and what it’s really like to have the virus. Talking to Adelina Chalmers, who first started experiencing symptoms 8 weeks ago - and was admitted to the hospital 6 week…
00:39:56 |
Wed 13 May 2020
EP 34: 1 in 70 million - conversation with rare disease advocate David Rose
What’s it like having a disease so rare, you’re misdiagnosed? Or you’re the only one in the whole of the UK to have it?
David Rose is a rare disease advocate, an ambassador for Great Ormond Street …
00:28:28 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
EP 33: Kat Arney on cancer research, epigenetics, and helping launch the ZOE app in the COVID19 crisis
How do you go from a cell to a baby? This question fixated Kat Arney at the beginning of her career, and pushed her towards epigenetics ‘before it was cool’. From travelling the globe asking how gene…
00:48:18 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
EP 32: DNA sequencing to find our roots and solve cold cases, the ethics of DNA databases with Debbie Kennett
Through combining genealogy with DNA testing, more can be discovered about family relationships - making it a powerful tool for reuniting families, and even solving cold cases. This week, Patrick int…
00:44:55 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
EP 31: COVID-19 - the human response to the virus, and what the future may hold with Columbia University Virologist Dr Angela Rasmussen
In this week’s bonus episode we talk to Dr Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen), a Virologist at Columbia University. She answers top questions surrounding COVID-19 and what this outbreak could mean f…
00:46:44 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
EP 30: Patient powered research networks - the future of medical research with Jillian Hastings Ward
Today, Jillian Hastings Ward is a leader in the 100,000 genomes project, but she and her family started off as one of the first families whose DNA was sequenced by the project in 2015.
She talks to …
00:40:40 |
Tue 17 Mar 2020
EP 29: Is breath testing the new frontier in preventive medicine? Conversation with Billy Boyle, Founder and CEO of Owlstone Medical
Early detection for diseases like cancer is important to everyone, but Owlstone Medical is leading the pack by creating a breathalyser that aims to diagnose diseases in the ultimate non-invasive test…
00:36:54 |
Thu 05 Mar 2020
EP 28: Drug repurposing for rare disease and the future of health with Dr Bruce Bloom (CCO of Healx) and Dr Mike Tranfaglia (CSO of FRAXA)
In this double-bill episode, Patrick talks to two key rare disease researchers in the field: Dr Bruce Bloom, the CCO of Healx, and Dr Mike Tranfaglia, CSO of FRAXA. In this episode both draw on their…
01:00:12 |
Wed 19 Feb 2020
EP 27: From Big Data to New Medicines with Dr Jeff Barrett, CSO of Genomics PLC
Patrick interviews Dr Jeff Barrett from Genomics PLC about how genetic data can be used for drug discovery and the future of precision medicine.
In this episode, Dr Barrett talks about going beyond…
00:35:06 |
Thu 06 Feb 2020
EP 26: Dr Matt Might: Ultra-rare disease advocate, precision medicine researcher, and Obama advisor
Patrick interviews Dr Matt Might, whose personal and professional life has brought him all the way to advising Obama and setting up his own institute. In this exciting episode, Matt discusses how he …
00:45:57 |
Thu 23 Jan 2020
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