This week on The Genetics Podcast, Patrick is joined by Madhuri Hegde, SVP and Chief Scientific Officer of Revvity. They discuss Revvity’s advances in ultra-rapid clinical-grade sequencing, opportunities, challenges, and global inequities in newborn screening, and the dilemma of resequencing versus long-term data storage.
Show Notes:
0:00 Intro to The Genetics Podcast
00:59 Welcome to Madhuri
01:52 Rebranding Revvity as a healthcare company
02:51 Advancements in sequencing and Revvity’s projects, including newborn screening tests and clinical ultra-rapid sequencing
12:29 Opportunities and challenges for newborn sequencing and global inequity in access
17:46 Price of sequencing and data storage versus resequencing considerations
21:10 Complexities and nuances of genomic data interpretation
23:28 Rethinking data portability and storage across the lifespan
26:00 Understanding penetrance and population genetics through lifelong sequencing
27:36 Scaling genetic counseling to match advancements and the potential value of chatbots
32:45 The promise of proteomics and translating Olink data to the clinic
34:31 Implementing polygenic risk scores in clinical management
37:12 Transitioning from academia to industry and insights into product development
38:37 Closing remarks
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