Research Showcase – New Frontiers in Personalised Medicine

The Centre for Personalised Medicine warmly invites you to register for our 2026 Research Showcase. The theme of this year’s Research Showcase is ‘New Frontiers in Personalised Medicine’. Please find the schedule for the day below:

10.00 – 10.15 Arrival

10.15 – 10.20 Welcome - Helen King, Principal of St Anne’s College

10.20 – 10.25 Introduction to the Centre for Human Genetics - Holm Uhlig

10.25 – 10.30 Overview of the day - Susie Weller, Centre for Personalised Medicine

10.30 – 11.30 Session 1: Centre for Personalised Medicine Presentations - Chaired by Angeliki Kerasidou

The Human Cell Atlas as a landmark resource in personalised medicine - Carla Cohen

Patient and caregiver-reported outcomes of genome sequencing for rare disease diagnosis - Sally Sansom

Digitalised and AI-enabled general practice: considering personalisation, and for whom - Francesca Dakin

Future of Low Carbon Health and Care: Sharing local learning from a recent CPM event - Louisa Chenciner

11.30 - 11.45 Break

11.45 - 12.45 Session 2: Centre for Personalised Medicine Presentations - Chaired by Sally Sansom

New frontiers in public engagement in personalised medicine - Ali Kay

Rethinking Categories in Genomic Medicine: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Ethnicity in Clinical Practice - Nishtha Bharti

New Frontiers: Genomic care as emerging field - Susie Weller

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch

13:45 – 14.45 Session 3: PechaKucha lightning talks – Chaired by Ali Kay

From Childhood Activity to Adolescent Outcomes: A Developmental Perspective on Personalisation – Denise Kohlhepp

Should new insights into reduced population-level penetrance influence our approach to incidental findings? – Ella Hodgson

Challenges of interpreting novel diplotypes in genomic newborn screening programmes – Imogen Grimwade

Deep Learning for Cirrhosis Prediction in Chronic Hepatitis B: Insights from a Large Multicentre Cohort – Jack Johnson

PPA2: Investigating the culprit gene implicated in sudden cardiac deaths – Mingma Sherpa

Representing Visual Difference in Medical Anthropology: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Exhibiting Extraordinary Bodies – Naomi Marshall

The Biology They Left Out – Zehra Azim

14.45 - 15.00 Coffee break

15.00 - 17.00 Session 4: Panel discussion – New Frontiers in Personalised Medicine - Chaired by Anneke Lucassen, Director of the Centre for Personalised Medicine

New frontiers in genetic testing: what does this mean for constructing results? - Rachel Horton, University of Oxford

New frontiers in penetrance: personalising risk for motor neurone disease - Andrew Douglas, University of Oxford

New frontiers in service provision: All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service - Kimberley Kendall, Cardiff University

New frontiers in environmental justice - Gabrielle Samuel, Kings College London

17.00 - 17.15 Closing reflections - Anneke Lucassen

17.15 – 18.15 Networking and drinks reception

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions, or to notify us of any dietary or accessibility requirements. The lunch will be vegetarian, but any other dietary requirements can be accommodated, just let us know.

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