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Newborn Screening Through the Decades

See how scientific and medical advances have propelled newborn screening forward.

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Changing Lives
In Real Time

We are transforming pediatric healthcare through the power of Rapid Precision Medicine™

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Partnering to End the Diagnostic Odyssey

We are heading up a newborn sequencing consortium that will revolutionize and shorten the diagnostic journey.

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Advancing Rapid
Precision Medicine™

We’re setting a new standard of care for newborns and children with rare undiagnosed diseases.

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Press Releases

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 ...

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Press Releases

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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Media Coverage
Media Coverage

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 ...

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Events

Sep
24

Newborn Screening: Past, Present, and Future.

Wednesday September 24, 2025 | 3pm PT

Speaker:

  • Anna-Kaisa Niemi Garcia Itza, MD, PhD, FAAP, FACMG | Neonatology, Metabolic Genetics at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego / Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego
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