News

See what others have to say about Genetic Alliance in this list of news articles, videos, talks, and more from external sources around the world.


2023

May 25, 2023 - Travera and Genetic Alliance Join Forces to Expand Access to Innovative Cancer Treatment

February 20, 2023 - The Impact of Ending the AmazonSmile Program on Nonprofits

February 10, 2023 - Real-World Data: The Secret Sauce for Rare Disease Research?

2022

August 10, 2022 - Making Genomic Testing Available To All—And Safeguarding People’s Control Of Their Health Data

July 8, 2022 - A Brief But Spectacular take on revolutionizing research

March 9, 2022 - LunaDNA Elevates Platform To Further Adhere To GDPR's Data Privacy Framework To Deliver Data Rights To Individuals Who Participate In Health Research

March 8, 2022 - The Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Association Launches RPL Community Registry

January 25, 2022- Genetic Alliance welcomes Julia Ortega to the team specifically to lead the iHope Genetic Health program.

January 25, 2022- Genetic Alliance and ClinWiki are excited to announce that the two organizations have merged.

2021

November 23, 2021- Genetic Alliance is delighted to announce that Susan McClure and Sam Solomon have joined the Genetic Alliance staff. With a variety of skills, they bring a breadth and depth of expertise critical to Genetic Alliance’s mission, growth, and communications.

November 16, 2021- Illumina and Genetic Alliance Launch $120 Million Global Initiative to Increase Equity and Improve Outcomes for Families Impacted by Genetic Disease

April 14, 2021- PIPC Joins Over 80 Patient and Disability Groups Urging Policymakers to Reject Policies That Discriminate

2020

December 18, 2020- Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance: Data and power to the people

November 6, 2020- The EveryLife Foundation in Partnership with Expecting Health at Genetic Alliance Wrapped the Second Annual Newborn Screening Bootcamp

May 18, 2018- The Rogue Experimenters

May 18, 2020- LunaPBC, Genetic Alliance create drug discovery platform for rare epilepsy

May 8, 2020- From Competition To Sharing: How Her Children’s Rare Disease Led Sharon Terry To Revolutionize Medical Research

April 17, 2020- Covid-19 Stalls Clinical Trials for Everything but Covid-19

2019

April 4, 2019- NBS Survey From Expecting Health & The Genetic Alliance

January 22, 2019- LunaDNA, Genetic Alliance to Merge Technology Platforms

2018

October 25, 2018- Questions for Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance- PMWC 2019 Honoree

October 5, 2018- ACMG awarded five-year, $13 million contract renewal to continue newborn screening efforts

October 3, 2018- Celiac Disease Foundation Attends Genetic Alliance People-Driven Research Meeting

September 21, 2018- Your Genetic Data Is The New Oil. These Startups Will Pay to Rent It

July 18, 2018- La extraordinaria historia de Sharon Terry, el ama de casa que descubrió y patentó el gen del pseudoxantoma elástico, la enfermedad rara de sus hijos

June 13, 2018- Claritas Genomics Adopts Genetic Alliance’s PEER Platform for Patient Results Sharing

April 12, 2018- Lawsuit alleges Michigan stole blood of newborn babies

April 12, 2018- Federal Lawsuit claims Michigan stole blood of newborn babies

April 10, 2018- The Emerging World of Online Health Communities

March 19, 2018- Luna DNA Expands Leadership and Advisory Board, Adding New Pedigree From Illumina

March 1, 2018- NIH Panel Puts Emphasis on Importance of Collaboration in Rare Disease Research

February 27, 2018- BioNews to Cover 3 Rare Disease Day Events, Including NIH Conference

February 9, 2018- Parents Sue Michigan Over Database of Baby Blood Samples

January 19, 2018- Claritas Genomics Shuts Down Operations

2017

September 29, 2017- Sharon Terry: When Siblings Get A Rare Diagnosis, Can Their Parents Find The Cure?

June 24, 2017- Genetic Alliance Joins Oracle Network in Effort to Facilitate Clinical Trials

June 12, 2017- Venture Philanthropy Straddles Two Worlds

May 4, 2017- Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project tracks fracking-related illnesses with new registry

May 1, 2017- Registry will study health impact from living near shale gas wells

April 26, 2017- Fixing the Genetic Information on the Internet

April 7, 2017- FDA Approves Marketing Of Consumer Genetic Tests For Some Conditions

March 21, 2017- What Your Family Tee Can Tell You About Your Health

March 21, 2017- 87 Advocacy Groups Send Letter to Congress to Save Medicaid

March 10, 2017- GINA Supporters Concerned House Bill Undermines Genetic Non-Discrimination Law

February 27, 2017- Rare Disease Day at NIH event features advances in rare disease research

February 14, 2017- Human Gene Editing Receives Science Panel’s Support

January 12, 2017- UNC Initiative to Create “Tools” for Studies of Rare Diseases, Train Researchers

January 6, 2017- UNC Catalyst initiative aims to create, share tools to fight rare diseases

2015


July 8, 2015 - FACT SHEET: New Patient-Focused Commitments to Advance the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative

June 23, 2015 - Claritas Genomics Adopts Genetic Alliance's PEER Platform for Patient Results Sharing

February 21, 2015 - Alzheimer's Disease Research Summit 2015: Expanding the Horizon

2016

July 26, 2016- Thanks to Social Media, Rare Progress on Rare Diseases

May, 2016- Thirty Years of Transforming Healthcare

March 31, 2016- Women's History Month Profile: Natasha Bonhomme

March 3, 2016- Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation

February 9, 2016 - AliveAndKickn, a hereditary cancer foundation, announces the launch of The HEROIC Registry for Lynch Syndrome genetic mutations

2014

May 14, 2014- Exclusive Interview with Sharon Terry on her personal entrepreneurship, Cultural Entrepreneurship Institute Berlin

July 1, 2014- In Genetic Haystacks, We're All Needles

June 18, 2014- Incorporation of Patient Perspective on Disease and Treatment Options Critical in Drug Development and Review

2013

December 9, 2013 - Sanofi US Launches Second Innovation Challenge: Collaborate | Innovate

November 15, 2013- Free the Data's first move: Opening data for breast cancer research

November 11, 2013- Advocacy groups crowdsourcing patient views on risk-benefit of drugs

November 6, 2013- 3 neat ways to participate in crowdsourced cancer and Alzheimer’s disease research

November 4, 2013- Genetic Alliance & PhRMA Announce Pilot Initiative to Advance Patient-Focused Drug Development

June 24, 2013- Genetic Alliance Selects Oracle Health Sciences Network to Help Patients Gain Access to Clinical Trials

2011

Levenson, Deborah. Genetic alliance marks 25 years . (2011). American Journal of Medical Genetics, 155A(12), ix-x.

Terry, S. F., Horn, E. J., Scott, J., & Terry, P. J. (2011). Genetic Alliance registry and BioBank: A novel disease advocacy-driven research solution . Personalized Medicine, 8(2), 207-213.

2009

Reed, K., Weaver, M., Chappelle, A., Furlong, P., Clapp, K., Miller, R., . . . Terry, S. F. (2009). Who said it? When did they say it? How did they know? Deciding when to trust or trash genetics health information . (poster). 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics., (October).

Sidler, M., & Jones, N. (2009). Genetics interfaces: Representing science and enacting public discourse in online spaces . Technical Communication Quarterly, 18(1), 28-48. doi:10.1080/10572250802437317.

2007

Zimmermann, J. (2007). Report on the genetic alliance summit . Genetic Testing, 11(4), 477-479.

2004

No genotype left untreated (2004). Nature Publishing Group. doi:10.1038/ng0504-429.

2001

Larkin, M. (2001). Genetic variation creatively celebrated . Lancet, 358(9278), 341.

2000

Weiss, J., Davidson, M. E., & Asch, A. (2000). Objectives and activities of the genetic alliance . American Journal of Public Health, 90(9), 1477-1478.