WOW! 😮 We were blown away by how many of you took part in our #ShowYourStripes campaign for Rare Disease Day 2024! It was lovely to see so many new faces!

See if you can spot yourself in our Rare Disease Day 2024 Gallery! 👏

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More stripy socks! #rarediseaseday #showyourstripes ⁦Medics4RareDiseases⁩

Celebrating Rare Disease day at St George’s with a wonderful lecture from our President Prof Diana Baralle. #showyourstripes #rarediseaseday ⁦Medics4RareDiseases⁩

It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our friend and colleague Dr Carol Gardiner who passed away from breast cancer on the 18th October. clingensoc.org

#ECR James Fasham talks about recognisable neurodevelopmental disorder due to impaired GABAergic transmission caused by SLC4A10 mutation.

#MDC23

Elisa Rahikkala presents six new cases of HIDEA syndrome #MDC

Alisdair McNeill presents expansions of the PBX1 clinical spectrum and genotype-phenotype correlations.

Muriel Holder presents a 7 year experience of the Hand And Upper Limb Difference clinic #MDC

Laura Watts from Oxford now presents the phenotypic spectrum of ZIC1 neurodevelopmental disorder with and without craniosynostosis #MDC

Mohnish Suri presents a new cohort of individuals with BMP2-related disorder. #MDC

Rhoda Akilapa presents an observational study of fetal foramen magnum stenosis and thoracolumbar kyphosis in Achondroplasia #MDC

👏 Congratulations to PhD student Niels Vos for winning second place poster prize @ the 19th Manchester Dysmorphology Conference! 👏 Niels presented his work on mapping clinical characteristics in 16p11.2 deletion and duplication syndrome patients Manchester Rare Conditions Centre VKGN

'So you want to be a Clinical Geneticist'
Clinical Genetics careers workshop: 25th September 2023. This free online event is open to all UK Medical students and GMC registered doctors: clingensoc.org/events/so-you-… BSGM UK Medical Students' Association (UKMSA) Imperial College Clinical Genetics Society Manchester Medical Research Students' Society Sheffield MedSoc

In response to concerns about an unsustainable medical workforce in Clinical Genetics, the CGS formed a workforce group, co-opted to the Council in Summer 2022. Visit the CGS website to view the reports: clingensoc.org/news/medical-w… UK Cancer Genetics Group BSGM Melody Redman

Save the date!- The 2024 Joint UK/Dutch CGS & CGG Meeting will take place on the 4th and 5th of March, with Dysmorphology on the 6th. Further details to follow: clingensoc.org/events/the-joi…

European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) just one month to go until #eshg2023 ! We look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow. Read about the must-see city attractions here: peoplemakeglasgow.com/inspire-me/gla…

Will you use the #NationalGenomicTestDirectory ? Or need to order clinical tests from it? And don't know where to start? Then join our mentored FutureLearn course. It's #free and certificated if you're in the #NHS . Enrol via: orlo.uk/J8mLz

Excellent day at #CGS2023 . Thanks so much to UK Clinical Genetics organising committee and all of the fantastic speakers! Many inspiring talks and great to see friends old and new. Some highlights from me...

As part of a £100M investment from Innovate UK we're launching the The DEVOTE Programme.

DEVOTE supports translation of genomic technologies into practice by enhancing industry access to world-class academic expertise.

devoteprogramme.co.uk

Partners, projects and pipeline. A🧵

Lovely to see outgoing Prof Sarah Smithson (one of my heroes and a fantastic CGS president) pass the baton on to Diana Baralle - our excellent incoming president #CGS2023