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Learn how GA4GH helps expand responsible genomic data use to benefit human health.
Learn how GA4GH helps expand responsible genomic data use to benefit human health.
Our Strategic Road Map defines strategies, standards, and policy frameworks to support responsible global use of genomic and related health data.
Discover how a meeting of 50 leaders in genomics and medicine led to an alliance uniting more than 5,000 individuals and organisations to benefit human health.
GA4GH Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation that supports the global GA4GH community.
The GA4GH Council, consisting of the Executive Committee, Strategic Leadership Committee, and Product Steering Committee, guides our collaborative, globe-spanning alliance.
The Funders Forum brings together organisations that offer both financial support and strategic guidance.
The EDI Advisory Group responds to issues raised in the GA4GH community, finding equitable, inclusive ways to build products that benefit diverse groups.
Distributed across a number of Host Institutions, our staff team supports the mission and operations of GA4GH.
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More than 500 organisations connected to genomics — in healthcare, research, patient advocacy, industry, and beyond — have signed onto the mission and vision of GA4GH as Organisational Members.
These core Organisational Members are genomic data initiatives that have committed resources to guide GA4GH work and pilot our products.
This subset of Organisational Members whose networks or infrastructure align with GA4GH priorities has made a long-term commitment to engaging with our community.
Local and national organisations assign experts to spend at least 30% of their time building GA4GH products.
Anyone working in genomics and related fields is invited to participate in our inclusive community by creating and using new products.
Wondering what GA4GH does? Learn how we find and overcome challenges to expanding responsible genomic data use for the benefit of human health.
Study Groups define needs. Participants survey the landscape of the genomics and health community and determine whether GA4GH can help.
Work Streams create products. Community members join together to develop technical standards, policy frameworks, and policy tools that overcome hurdles to international genomic data use.
GIF solves problems. Organisations in the forum pilot GA4GH products in real-world situations. Along the way, they troubleshoot products, suggest updates, and flag additional needs.
NIF finds challenges and opportunities in genomics at a global scale. National programmes meet to share best practices, avoid incompatabilities, and help translate genomics into benefits for human health.
Communities of Interest find challenges and opportunities in areas such as rare disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Participants pinpoint real-world problems that would benefit from broad data use.
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18 Jul 2024
Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Zinaida Perova, and Bernie Pope join Salvador Capella-Gutierrez and Romina Royo as Co-Leads of the GA4GH Cancer Community of Interest.
By Jaclyn Estrin, GA4GH Science Writer
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is pleased to welcome new Co-Leads of its Cancer Community of Interest: Benjamin Haibe-Kains of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto, Zinaida Perova of EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute, and Bernie Pope of The University of Melbourne. Following an open nomination process, Haibe-Kains, Perova, and Pope were selected to join incumbent Co-Leads of the Cancer Community, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez and Romina Royo, both of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, to advance the goals of the Community.
GA4GH Communities of Interest provide a convening point for GA4GH contributors with shared interests and applications in genomic and health-related topics across several focus areas. Established in 2020, the Cancer Community provides a platform for collaborative discussion and knowledge exchange around cancer research, tool development, data sharing, and utilising GA4GH products and standards to enhance oncology care.
Capella-Gutierrez and Royo, along with David Torrents, of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, were the inaugural Co-Leads of the Cancer Community. They have been instrumental in facilitating an open forum of knowledge sharing over their tenure.
Stepping down from his role as Co-Lead, Torrents has had a significant contribution within the Cancer Community, bringing his expertise in computational genomics and his perspective as a former Driver Project Champion of the European-Canadian Cancer Network (EUCANCan) initiative to shape its direction. GA4GH extends its gratitude for his contributions and dedication over the past years, as he passes the torch to the new Co-Leads.
Joining Capella-Gutierrez and Royo, Haibe-Kains, Perova, and Pope bring a rich background of experience to GA4GH. Together, the five Co-Leads are a diverse representation of the cancer genomics landscape, working to amplify the impact of the GA4GH Cancer Community across institutions around the world.
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Benjamin Haibe-Kains is a Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, a University Health Network hospital, a Professor in the Medical Biophysics department of the University of Toronto, and the Canada Research Chair in Computational Pharmacogenomics. His research aims to improve cancer care through the development of prognostic and predictive models to guide treatment decisions. He is passionate about open science, and the tenets of transparency, reproducibility, and reusability within research to bring people together. Haibe-Kains is interested in driving the development of standards through GA4GH and beyond to share data, code, and software environments, particularly within the complex landscape of bioinformatics, computational biology, and artificial intelligence applied to medicine. |
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Zinaida Perova is the Project Lead of the CancerModels.Org — the largest open catalog of harmonised patient-derived cancer models, developed at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Her passion for data integration and standardisation underpins the development of the global platform that enables seamless access to patient-derived cancer models for research, drug development, and drug testing, which in turn accelerates an understanding of cancer biology and supports a patient-driven approach to precision medicine. Perova believes in the importance of standardising and reusing scientific data to create sustainable and interoperable solutions that enhance genomic research and human health outcomes. |
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Bernie Pope is an Associate Professor at The University of Melbourne, Associate Director of Human Genome Informatics at Australian BioCommons, and Bioinformatics Lead at Melbourne Bioinformatics. He has a research background in cancer bioinformatics and is also working to develop technology and computational techniques to advance human genomics and cancer research in Australia. Pope believes that diversity of representation and equitable access to health benefits are fundamental principles of human -omics programmes. He is looking forward to advancing this work through collaboration among people and institutions in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. |