Mario

A Rapid Diagnosis,
Now He's Bouncing Back

Mario arrived on life support — ultra-rapid WGS confirmed why he needed a heart transplant

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teen boy dribbling basketball
BeginNGS

Partnering to End the Diagnostic Odyssey

We are heading up a newborn sequencing consortium that will revolutionize and shorten the diagnostic journey.

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mother kissing newborn baby on the head
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Advancing Rapid
Precision Medicine™

We’re setting a new standard of care for newborns and children with rare undiagnosed diseases.

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Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Awards Young Investigator Grant to Researcher at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine

Rady Childrens Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM),  a non-profit research institute enabling rapid diagnosis and targeted treatment of critically ill newborns and pediatric patients, is proud to announce that Aaron D. Besterman, MD, received a Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.

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Rare Community Profiles: Inozyme’s Catherine Nester Discusses Newborn Screening and the GACI Diagnostic Delay

PATIENT WORTHY: Catherine Nester spoke with Patient Worthy about the importance of newborn screening, the challenges of diagnostic delays, and how Inozyme is working to transform the treatment landscape for ENPP1 Deficiency and ABCC6 Deficiency, also known as Generalized Arterial Calcification of Infancy (GACI) types 1 and 2, respectively.

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Opinion
Media Coverage

Too many treatable diseases go unnoticed. This could change that.

WASHINGTON POST: DNA sequencing to diagnose newborns could end up saving much more money — especially if done for babies who are sick. In a study funded by the state of California called Project Baby Bear, researcher Stephen Kingsmore found that sequencing the whole genomes of 178 infants hospitalized in intensive care saved $2.5 million.

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Jan
24

Pediatric Brain Tumors: Molecular Diagnostics and Translational Research at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine

Wednesday January 24, 2024 | 3pm PST

Lukas Chávez, PhD, from UC San Diego and Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, will present. Registration opens in early January.
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