Research Showcase
Personalised prevention aims to tailor preventative health strategies to individual characteristics, for example, genetic, lifestyle or environmental factors. The aim is to prevent or delay the onset of disease more effectively than a one-size-fits all approach. Whilst this holds much promise for improving healthcare outcomes, this promise can only be realised if we also consider some of the challenges to successful integration.
This year, the Centre for Personalised Medicine Research Showcase brings together researchers and stakeholders from a range of disciplines to explore the latest thinking on personalised prevention, in its broadest sense.
In this showcase, we will explore both how the potential may be realised and the challenges overcome, by discussing research underway at the University of Oxford, along with the wider political and social context within which these ambitions are situated.
This event is open to anyone interested in personalised prevention, including researchers, clinicians, students, policymakers, patient advocates, and industry professionals.
The event will take place in the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford on Tuesday 4th February 2025. If you would like to register to attend just the panel discussion, you can do so here.
We do hope you will be able to join us for this thought-provoking day. Please see below for the Research Showcase schedule:
10.45 – 11.00 Arrival
11.00 – 11.05 Welcome – Professor Holm Uhlig, Director of the Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
11.05 – 11.15 Introduction – Dr Sarah Briggs and Dr Susie Weller, Centre for Personalised Medicine, University of Oxford
11.15 – 12.30 Session 1: Centre for Personalised Medicine Fellows Panel
10-minute presentations from the CPM fellows followed by discussion:
- Sally Sansom – Personalised prevention within the context of the CPM strategy
- Dr Sarah Briggs – Public views on sustainable healthcare: how does personalisation fit in?
- Dr Louisa Chenciner – When climate change gets personal: approaches to communicate climate health risks to the individual
- Dr Rachel Horton – Glowing gels and pipettes aplenty: what expectations of genetic testing might stock images invite?
- Dr Ali Kay – Exploring genetic responsibilities: Personalising de novo (new) recurrence risk for couples whose child has a serious genetic condition.
- Dr Susie Weller – The place of ‘additional findings’ in personalised prevention: participant’s views
- Chair: Catherine Lidbetter, CPM Programme Co-ordinator
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 Session 2: Keynote: Predicting trouble? The rise, fall and re-emergence of genetic risk prediction.
- Dr Stuart Hogarth, Associate Professor in Sociology of Science and Technology, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
- Chair: Dr Nishtha Bharti, Clinical Ethics, Law and Society, University of Oxford
14.15 – 15.30 Session 3: PechaKucha session
Short presentations from postgraduate students and early career researchers
- Ishbel Henderson – Changes in physical activity to predict decline in older adults
- Davey Liu – When medical prevention meets humanity – Navigating HIV prevention and testing through social and medical infrastructure in the United States
- Dr Nishtha Bharti – Race, ethnicity and ancestry in genomic medicine
- Tiffany Truong – Harnessing the power of circadian rhythm for nutrition and pharmacology for personalised and health optimisation
- Eloise Wells – Modulating splicing to treat rare haploinsufficient disorders
- Chair: Dr Ali Kay/Sally Sansom
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.25 Session 4: Panel discussion
10-minute presentation by each panelist on: ‘The opportunities and challenges associated with implementing personalised prevention strategies in healthcare’ followed by discussion
- Dr Helena Carley, Post-CCT Specialist Registrar in Clinical Genetics, Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
- Dr David Church, Associate Professor, Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, and Honorary Consultant Oncologist, Oxford University Hospitals
- Harry Farmer, Senior Researcher, Emerging Technology & Industry Practice, Ada Lovelace Institute
- Charles Tallack, Director of Research and Analysis at The Health Foundation
- Chair: Professor Anneke Lucassen, Director of the Centre for Personalised Medicine, University of Oxford
17.25 – 17.30 Closing remarks: Professor Anneke Lucassen
17.30 – 18.30 Drinks reception