The Advanced Genomics Collaboration's four 2024 Innovation Projects went live on RRR's Einstein A Go-Go radio program—a program exploring the wonders of science and its impact on the world.

The fun chat with Dr Shane Huntington explored the possibilities presented by genomics in health innovation.

The guests were:

• Associate Professor Lauren Ayton (co-host of the program) from the University of Melbourne Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences and the Centre for Eye Research Australia, whose team will establish a comprehensive patient dataset of inherited retinal diseases, providing information to drive new treatments and therapies for the most common cause of blindness in working-aged Australians. 
• Associate Professor Richard Tothill from the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, who is partnering with Professor Sarah-Jane Dawson and clinicians and researchers at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to develop a rapid multi-omic liquid biopsy blood test utilising whole genome sequencing to resolve the difficult diagnosis of cancer of unknown primary origin.
• Professor Peter Rogers at the University of Melbourne Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and The Royal Women's Hospital, who is performing next generation sequencing to find new solutions for patients with common endometrial related health problems such as abnormal menstrual bleeding, infertility and pregnancy disorders at The Women’s and Mercy Hospital.
• Professor Niall Corcoran from the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Department of Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Western Health, who is leading a study using genomic testing and predictive disease modelling to guide therapy and reduce the burden of prostate cancer diagnosis, which evidence suggests is over-diagnosed and over-treated in early disease.

Listen now on the RRR website, or search for the 21 July 2024 episode of "Einstein A Go-Go" in your favourite podcasting app.

Learn more about our Innovation Projects.