The 5th edition of our flagship Genetics Matters event took place in our Institute on the 23rd of February. The event was very well attended, the presentations sparked lively and interesting discussions and we had a special reel showing in our Black Box.

Thank you all for coming on a sunny Saturday afternoon (and a match day!) to celebrate genetic research in Newcastle and to raise awareness of rare disease and the need for rare disease research.

Thank you very much for the wonderful afternoon, it helped me a lot with deciding academic science and researches’ role in the practice of Medicine – participant

The format was very good and the cakes very moreish!! The Pop Up cinema was an excellent idea. – participant

The 2 talks I heard [..] were both absolutely outstanding and interesting for me to hear as a researcher and clinician. – presenter