| General Session: The $1,000 Genome: Impact on Science and Society |
| Kevin Davies, PhD, MA |
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In the decade since the completion of the Human Genome Project, the worlds of science and
medicine have experienced profound change. The cost of sequencing a genome has plummeted
from hundreds of millions of dollars to barely $1,000, while what once took years can now be done in
about a day. Genome sequencing is now routinely applied in medicine and clinical trials, particularly
in oncology. And the President has proposed a new Precision Medicine Initiative to build a biobank of
1 million volunteers. Kevin Davies, the founding editor of Nature Genetics and author of "The $1,000
Genome", will discuss the legacy of the Human Genome Project, the breakthrough technologies that
have brought us to the brink of the $1,000 genome, the impact of clinical and consumer genetics, and v
the legal and societal complications of what many view as the erosion of genomic privacy.
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