27 May 2025
This week, the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) conference brought together researchers, geneticists, clinicians, and industry leaders, including Illumina, to explore the latest advancements in genomics. The location of this year’s conference was special in that it was just a short drive from Illumina’s Solution Center in the Milano Innovation District (MIND), showcasing Milan as a hub for life science technologies.
As a sponsor of the 58th annual event, Illumina hosted two corporate satellite symposia: The first, “Innovations driving the multiomics revolution,” featured speakers from Genomics England, the Broad Institute, KU Leuven in Belgium, and Heidelberg Epignostix. The second, “Breaking new grounds in genomics,” focused on newborn screening programs at Oslo University in Norway, University Hospital Brno in Czechia, and the Institute for Human Genetics and University of Ferrara in Italy. The panelists discussed how their research has benefited from groundbreaking advancements in whole-genome sequencing and Illumina’s new constellation mapped read technology. Illumina also presented many posters at the conference, covering topics from noninvasive prenatal testing to the implementation of rapid whole-genome sequencing for critically ill children.
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