In these latest projects, the Alliance will investigate whether genomic sequencing can help to:
- Better identify and control superbugs among Victoria’s most vulnerable patients
- Better understand the cause of a patient’s bone marrow failure, enabling more personalised medical care and improved identification of relatives at risk
- Improve diagnosis and care of adolescent and adult patients with complex neurological and neurodegenerative disease
- Better understand the cause of multiple abnormalities in babies, who die in utero or early in infancy
- Achieve more accurate diagnosis and improved patient care for genetic kidney disease
The projects will run from 2017-2019, and patients from The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Royal Children’s Hospital, The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Austin Health and Monash Health will be invited to participate.
Source: See the full article on the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance website,
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