Australian Polygenic Risk Symposium 2021 Virtual Meeting - Wrap Up

A huge thank you to all those involved in making the APRS 2021 Virtual Meeting such a great success.  

Thank you to the speakers, chairs, panellists and participants of APRS21 for taking part in this virtual event. Thank you also to the steering committee for their leadership, organisation and abstract review. 

Please give us your thoughts on the conference content and format in our feedback form. Finally, thank you to the Garvan Institute of Medical Research for hosting and to Illumina for their support of this conference. We look forward to seeing you all again in the future.

Registration is still open to access the recorded sessions.


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Steering Committee

Mrs Mary-Anne Young (Chair)

Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics,
Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Associate Professor Anne Cust

Melanoma Institute Australia and 
The University of Sydney School of Public Health

Professor Jon Emery

The University of Melbourne and the
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre

Associate Professor Paul James

Parkville Familial Cancer Centre (Royal Melbourne Hospital) 
and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre)

Associate Professor Stuart MacGregor

QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

Dr Owen Siggs

Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Ms Bronwyn Terrill

Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics

Professor Naomi Wray

Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland

Dr Tatiane Yanes

The University of Queensland,
Diamantina Institute




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