Precision Pioneers EP 1: Variant Bio CSO Kaja Wasik on the power of human genetic diversity in drug development

March 3rd, 2021  |  51 mins 7 secs

This week Patrick is joined by Dr Kaja Wasik, CSO and co-founder of Variant Bio

EP 56: The business of start ups with Jason Mellad, CEO of Start Codon

February 17th, 2021  |  52 mins 34 secs

On this episode, Patrick is joined by Jason Mellad, CEO and Co-Founder at Start Codon, a healthcare startup accelerator that helps develop healthcare startups.

EP 55: The Girl With MS talks about her journey with Multiple Sclerosis and advocacy

February 3rd, 2021  |  35 mins 21 secs

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This week we talk to ‘The Girl With MS’, Caroline Craven. A Multiple Sclerosis patient advocate, Caroline has written thousands of blog posts about her journey with the condition to help others manage MS as well.

Ep 54: Genetic testing, breaking down stigma, and supporting people with Familial ALS with Daniel Barvin

January 20th, 2021  |  41 mins 30 secs

In this episode of the Genetics Podcast we’re joined by Daniel Barvin, an ALS advocate whose family is affected by Familial ALS, specifically the genetic variant C9orf72.

EP 53: Predictions and trends to watch for the year ahead with Jane Theaker, Phillip Beer, and Jason Mellad

January 14th, 2021  |  41 mins 37 secs

This first episode of 2021 sees host Patrick Short talk to three insightful guests about their predictions for research and medicine in the year ahead. In this compilation episode, Patrick talks to Jane Theaker, Phillip Beer and Jason Mellad, each experts in their field.

EP 52: Population-scale viral sequencing with Dr Jeff Barrett, Lead Statistical Geneticist for COG-UK

December 9th, 2020  |  39 mins 18 secs

Patrick and Jeff discuss COG-UK's sequencing operation that is tracking viral spread around the UK, how to identify super spreader events from virus data, what is known about re-infection from COVID19, and results from the vaccine trials and what the next year may hold.

EP 51: 20-year study of 55,000 Canadians: Alberta's Tomorrow Project with Dr Jennifer Vena

November 26th, 2020  |  48 mins 10 secs

Patrick and Jennifer discuss the history of the Alberta's Tomorrow Project, its goals for the future, and the role Covid will continue to play including with research studies that are not directly associated with the disease.

EP 50: Dr Barry Singer, the MS doctor who is using technology to connect with patients and scale his impact

November 11th, 2020  |  45 mins 31 secs

Dr Barry Singer is a neurologist who specialises in multiple sclerosis, he is also the host of MS Living Well, a podcast that deals with living with multiple sclerosis. In 2007 Dr Singer created the website MS living well as a resource centre for patients looking to find information about the disease.

EP 49: Genomics in education and the social sciences with Dr Daphne Martschenko

October 29th, 2020  |  45 mins 29 secs

Patrick and Dr Daphne Martschenko discuss the history of IQ testing, how genome-wide association analysis and polygenic risk scores are being applied to education, and the ethical issues surrounding gene editing technologies.

EP 48: Tipping the Balance on Ulcerative Colitis with Seb Tucknott

October 14th, 2020  |  51 mins 2 secs

Seb Tucknott is an author and patient advocate who was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis in 2008. Seb joins the podcast to discuss how to view the healthcare system from an outsider's perspective, making lifestyle changes, and his 2019 book 'Tipping the Balance'.

EP 47: HDR-UK CEO Caroline Cake: Making the UK a world leader in health data science

September 30th, 2020  |  40 mins 30 secs

Chief Executive Officer of Health Data Research UK Caroline Cake joins Patrick to talk about accelerating medical research through health data science

EP 46: Rebel Cell: Kat Arney's new book on Cancer, Evolution, and the Science of Life

September 16th, 2020  |  38 mins 4 secs

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Kat Arney returns to the podcast to discuss her new book ‘Rebel Cell’, which takes an evolutionary look at cancer.

EP 45 Steff Di Pardo on Ankylosing Spondylitis and Instagram as a support network for health communities

September 2nd, 2020  |  23 mins 22 secs

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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 opening up about her condition to friends and family on Facebook, and her decision to bring her refreshing honesty to a wider audience with her blog, Totally Chronic.

EP 44 Bringing preventive health to 8 billion people: Peter Würtz from Nightingale Health on their pioneering blood testing platform

August 19th, 2020  |  39 mins 28 secs

We talk to Peter about their work with the UK Biobank, including recent research that shows their blood test could be used predict severe COVID19 well before onset of symptoms.

EP 43 Diversity in clinical research and COVID19's impact on people with immune conditions with Dr Sonya Abraham.

August 5th, 2020  |  43 mins 23 secs

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 rheumatology research, including the role of the microbiome, and what COVID19 researchers can learn from existing rheumatology research.

EP 42 Tapoka Mkandawire on the gut microbiome, neglected tropical diseases, and the power of citizen science

July 29th, 2020  |  33 mins 51 secs

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't that well known in the UK.