Partnerships will drive the future of healthcare in Ireland

Advanced genomic analysis will transform how we practice medicine and how doctors will treat patients, from prevention to cure, says Prof Owen P Smith.

It is 16 years since the achievement of one of the most critical scientific efforts that almost didn’t happen: the Human Genome Project.

Described by President Bill Clinton as “the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind”, the mapping of the human genome was one of the most ambitious global research programmes ever undertaken, and a seminal endeavour in the advancement of scientific knowledge.