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We partner with the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and biotechs through our Discovery Forum to unlock genomic data and accelerate new treatment development.

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How we work with industry

Partner with us through our Discovery Forum

Companies within the Discovery Forum have access to our secure Research Environment with the world's largest whole genome disease cohort for cancer and rare disease.

The Discovery Forum provides a platform for collaboration and engagement between Genomics England, industry partners, academia, the NHS and the wider UK genomics landscape.

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What does being a member involve?

Access to our secure Research Environment

Discovery Forum members partner with Genomics England to collect and analyse genomic and longitudinal clinical data to gain insights into human disease and turn them into treatments and diagnostics for patients.

Collaboration with the UK genomics ecosystem

The Forum promotes collaboration with industry and academic key opinion leaders via a platform where members share ideas, co-invest in projects, share results, present findings, and field ideas for future research.

Networking and further learning opportunities

Meet other industry members and stay involved in the UK genomics industry through a range of member-only events and lecture seminars throughout the year.

Who can join?

We have a broad membership that includes top tier biopharma companies, selected biotechs and diagnostic companies that are focused on rare disease and cancer, a wide range of genomic-centric start-ups and CROs.

Key facts

300+

Scientists in pharma and biotech

3

Start-up accelerator partnerships

8/10

Tier 1 pharma companies

Become a member

Our independent Access Review Committee ensures that all partners are bonafide research organisations, committed to research that supports the interests of our participants and the communities they represent.

  1. 1
    Email our partnerships team to express your interest
    Request to join
  2. 2
    Fill in an application – our team will assist you with this
  3. 3
    We review your request together with our Access Review Committee
    Meet the committee
  4. 4
    Once approved, you become a member of the Discovery Forum
  5. 5
    Your researchers gain access to our secure Research Environment
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Meet the Discovery Forum members

Members are grouped alphabetically by company name

We are excited to be able to show the impact of using our AI and machine learning approach that leverages complex genomic data to deliver improved, more personalised therapy for ovarian cancer that, worldwide, affects over 300,000 women. We are continuing to refine these AI models with the goal of providing highly-accurate predictive models of ovarian cancer to help oncologists and drive the development of the next generation precision ovarian cancer therapies.

J. Melville Engle

CEO of Predictive Oncology, on the company's success partnering with Genomics England and working with data from the 100,000 Genomes Project in Genomics England's National Genomic Research Library (NGRL)

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What projects are you working on?

Our ecosystem of partners is very diverse, from top tier biopharma companies to a wide range of genomic-centric biotech and start-ups. As a result, we’re constantly evolving our offering – if you have ideas on how we could develop a partnership together please email us.

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