News from the Industry Genomics Network Alliance

News and updates 16 February 2021

InGeNA is an industry genomics community brought to you by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.

Message from the Chair

As we commence 2022 with 20 members and a healthy pipeline of new members and partners, we are ready for the next chapter to consolidate the foundation work from our first year while looking ahead with plans for growth and greater advocacy.

The work of the steering committee and support of members has ensured that InGeNA is confirmed to continue into our second year, and take its place as the leading, single voice for the future of genomics industry in Australia.

Late last year we released two important reports 'Valuing the impact of genomics on healthcare in Australia' and 'The big picture on genomic data in Australia’ and continued to support and foster industry to collaborate across diagnostics/pathology, tech and pharma.

Our immediate plans this year include the development of our strategy to take us through 2022 and beyond, and we will also release two final outputs from 2021 building upon the first-year projects.

Our aim is to continue to build the InGeNA community, conduct regular events such as the public and member webinars to be held in March, and next week InGeNA will have a strong presence at the Digital Health Institute Summit.

InGeNA relies on the support of members, and I invite you to j oin us this year to help us realise our aim to ensure long and far-reaching benefits for Australian health consumers.

David Bunker FAIDH CHIA

Chair, InGeNA

Rare Disease Day

InGeNA is proud to support the global movement to raise public awareness of rare diseases and the impact on people’s lives marked by Rare Disease Day on 28 February.

Rare Disease Day raises awareness among the public and decision-makers of the impact those rare diseases have on people’s lives.

Visit the Rare Disease Day website to download campaign support materials and to find out about local events.

InGeNA is on a mission to work collaboratively to integrate genomics into healthcare and deliver better health outcomes for patients.

SING applications open

Applications are open for the 2022 Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics SING Australia’s week-long workshop and mentoring program from 12-18 June.

SING is a week-long workshop and mentoring program that covers technical and laboratory skills in genomics as well as theory, ethical and social implications of genomic research and the benefits and risks of genomics for Indigenous peoples.

Webinar: Genomics in the Cloud

Wed 16 Mar | 12.30 – 1.30pm AEDT

The first InGeNA webinar for the year will be themed ‘Genomics in the cloud’. The webinar will cover how genomics is already being influenced by the cloud and will explore the importance and impact on genomics cloud computing and how organisations are leveraging cloud technologies.

Speakers include Dr Denis Bauer, head cloud computing bioinformatics, CSIRO,Dr Alejandro Metke who leads the Health Data Interoperability Team at the Australian e-Health Research Centre and Garvan Institute Head of Data Science Sarah Kummerfeld.

Podcast episode

A new episode of the Patient Voice Podcast puts access to genetic screening in the spotlight as told by Rachael Casella who lost her seven-month-old daughter Mackenzie to spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1 in 2017.

Since then, Rachael has worked tirelessly to ensure that more parents can access potentially life-saving genetic screening so they can navigate the risks of autosomal recessive disorders - which are often very rare diseases.

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