East Genomics

Our Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Genomic Laboratory site is looking for a Technical Programme Manager to lead and operationally manage the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) section of the Technical Laboratory. If you have extensive hands on experience of genomic sequencing, library preparation and quality control, plus some use of automation equipment, and operational management experience in a busy diagnostic service, we'd love to hear from you. You'll report to the Head of Technical Programme and work together with the other Technical Managers and Team Leads to ensure the processes and assays within the wet lab are running smoothly as well as ensuring our UKAS accreditation is maintained. You'll also manage team of Senior Genetic Technologists and maintain specialist skills in Genomic Testing, in order to troubleshoot and improve sequencing workflows in the laboratory. Does that sound like a good opportunity? Find out more here (including how to apply): https://lnkd.in/e2nZWRJ4 Please note, the closing date for applications is 4 November 2024 at 23:59. #NHSjobs #ScientificJobs #Genomics #Laboratory

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A number of us are out and about today at a several events across the East Mids/East of England and we look forward to having many a #GenomicsConversation If you’re at Nursing Live in Liverpool today or tomorrow say hello to our Lead Nurse Anita who is sharing a stand with counterparts from across the country We’re also at the Black Health and Research Conference at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals today. And if you’re in Leicester at the African and Caribbean Health and Wellbeing Day at the African Caribbean Centre, we’re sharing a stall with Prostaid from 10am. PROSTaid Sue Young Cancer Support African Heritage Alliance Nursing Live UK Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Norwich Research Park University of East Anglia

"I would be on a very different set of drugs if I didn’t have that [WGS] result, and those drugs might not be as effective in reducing my recurrence of cancer". The Personalised Breast Cancer Programme is now operating at five sites across England, including three Trusts in the East region: - Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust The research programme analyses DNA like a barcode and is leading to more tailored treatments for breast cancer patients that are helping to better manage, and treat their cancer. "If I had known my risk of cancer when my dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer, I’d have caught it [breast cancer] when it was just a pea sized lump, instead of the tumour getting much bigger and spreading. I think it’s something that I and others would always fight for." Read more on our website: https://lnkd.in/eU_7GKcZ #BreastCancerAwareness

Our October newsletter is out now. Lots packed in, including: - Genomics England & NHS England public launch of the Generation Study - University of Leicester & Lynch Syndrome UK patient app - Wellcome Sanger Institute Deciphering Developmental Disorders study results - Events, education and training from Central and South GMSA, NHS North Thames Genomic Medicine Service, Genomics Education Programme, Cambridge Rare Disease Network (CamRARE), Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Progress Educational Trust and more... - Report on Fragile X with BBC Radio Leicester - Testing and laboratory updates Plus lots more. You can read it on our website: https://lnkd.in/ewUbnREw See previous issues (and our Nursing and Midwifery and Pharmacy newsletters) here: https://lnkd.in/ezjb2V9d And sign up to receive future editions here: https://lnkd.in/eB6YSijG

Just read Chris Hoy’s story in the Sunday Times, and we share a Stage 4 Prostate Cancer diagnosis, bone mets and all. His positivity matches mine but I do not believe that my life is limited to 4 years (Chris was given 2 to 4 years), especially when friends Steve and Tony have lived 7+ years thanks to abiraterone. Three interesting things from the interview: 1. Chris had two generations before him with PCa diagnosis yet he wasn’t apparently eligible for PSA testing on NHS, being younger than 50. My own polygenic risk score of 2.6 means my sons will get PSA testing from age 40. 2. Chris shares my hope that advances in PCa treatments will make it possible to live longer with the currently incurable disease. There are a few reports of Stage 4 “cures” but steady the horses. 3. Chris’s Tour de 4 bike ride from Glasgow to Edinburgh will hopefully support PCa charities in same way as the Big Blue Bike Ride supports Prostate Cancer UK. I managed to raise £4K this September past on the BBBR thanks to friends & family. Stay positive all you guys with Stage 4 PCa and get your friends to have a PSA test!

Some great stats form our friends at NHS South East Genomic Medicine Service for #WearItPink day this #BreastCancerAwareness month. Closer to home, a ground-breaking breast cancer programme pioneered at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, which decodes the genetic sequence of a patient’s cancer, is to expand in the East region. More details to follow in the coming days....

We're on the road again! Today Georgina Corfield and colleagues from the East Genomics Lab at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are at an Anglia Ruskin University Careers Day at their Cambridge campus. If you happen to be there, do stop by our East Genomics stand and find out just how varied and rewarding careers in genomics are!

Registration is now open for the Genomics Training Academy's (#NHSgtac) new monthly CPD webinar series! 🧬 Be sure to book your space for the first session on Wednesday 6 November at 1pm. All the info you need is in our recent news release: https://buff.ly/3NtSITy