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King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre Joins BeginNGS® Consortium to Advance Newborn Screening by Genome Sequencing in the Region

BeginNGS Enables Early Detection of Hundreds of Treatable Genetic Disorders in Newborns Riyadh, Saudi Arabia —October 7, 2025– Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) today announced an agreement with King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC), a leading healthcare, research, and education institution recognized across Middle East and Internationally for providing world-class medical care and advancing healthcare standards, to collaborate on implementing RCIGM’s genome-based newborn screening platform, BeginNGS. As a not-for-profit healthcare system, KFSHRC joins the BeginNGS Consortium as a Bronze level member. Launched by RCIGM and its founding partners in 2022, BeginNGS is designed to prevent or ...

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BeginNGS® Newborn Screening by Genome Sequencing Program Launches International Collaboration with Sidra Medicine in Qatar

BeginNGS to screen newborns for more than one thousand treatable genetic disorders Doha, Qatar —August 19, 2025– Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM®) today announced an agreement with Sidra Medicine, a world-class specialty healthcare organization for women, children and young people in the State of Qatar, to collaborate on implementing RCIGM’s genome-based newborn screening research program, BeginNGS (pronounced “beginnings”). Sidra Medicine joins the BeginNGS Consortium as the first international BeginNGS site. Under the leadership of Dr. Ammira Akil, Director of the Metabolic and Mendelian Translational Research Program at Sidra Medicine, the collaboration with BeginNGS will advance the detection of ...

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BeginNGS® Consortium Announces Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease as its First Platinum Member

Company’s membership to support evolution of genome-informed newborn screening healthcare delivery system

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Accelerating Genome Analysis to Screen Newborn Babies in Hours Instead of Days

Dr. Stephen F. Kingsmore, President and CEO of Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, discusses how rapid whole genome sequencing helped diagnose a rare genetic condition that caused baby Dakota’s kidneys to fail—leading to lifesaving treatment and a path forward for her family.