Personal Genomics Zone

I spend many hours working with LLMs to help me support my academic writing. This post summarises what I have learned. If you are using LLMs to help write academic papers, grant applications, or technical reports, these observations might save you from some painful mistakes. You can listen to the extended version for this blog […]

Presented at the UK–Indonesia Health Genomics Forum, London, 25 November 2025 When we speak about the future of precision medicine, it is easy to focus on the technology. We talk about sequencing platforms, AI systems, analytical pipelines and discovery engines. Yet the real foundation of precision medicine is something much more fundamental. Precision medicine cannot […]

By Dr Manuel Corpas Precision medicine is built on a contradiction. The field promises individualised care calibrated to each person’s biology, yet its foundations rest on data representing a fraction of humanity. After two decades at the intersection of genomics, artificial intelligence, and global health, I have reached a conclusion that the field must confront […]

A recap of my presentation to Britcham Brazil, 7 October 2025 This morning I had the privilege of presenting to a distinguished audience at the British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil (Britcham), as part of a webinar titled “Health Data Equity in Latin America in the Age of AI and Genomics.” I was […]

These weeks I will be putting here the lectures I am currently delivering for Biobanking for Data Science, a module that I lead at the University of Westminster for the MSc AI Digital Health course I also lead. I will be providing a summary and the recordings for these lectures. The research presented here is […]

When I’m asked how I became a scientist, I usually smile, because the truth is, I’ve been aspiring to be one for over 30 years. My career didn’t follow the straight path I once imagined. I failed to get into medical school, so I turned to biomedical sciences instead. During my undergraduate studies, something unexpected […]

by Dr. Manuel Corpas Despite breathtaking advances in genomics over the past two decades, we are failing to answer a fundamental question: who benefits from this progress? The sobering truth is that the benefits of precision medicine are overwhelmingly skewed toward people of European ancestry. In 2016, 81% of all genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were […]

Genomics holds the promise to revolutionize healthcare—offering tailored diagnoses, treatments, and prevention strategies. But as I shared in my recent talk, this vision remains dangerously incomplete without one critical ingredient: diversity. At the heart of my presentation, delivered on 26 June 2025, was a stark reminder from Popejoy and Fullerton’s landmark 2016 Nature paper: over […]

In this episode of Personal Genomics Zone, I sit down with Professor Yves Moreau from KU Leuven for a deep and thought-provoking conversation on the intersections of artificial intelligence, genomics, and society. Our connection goes back to our shared contributions to the DECIPHER database — a foundational project in rare disease research that has shaped […]

Imagine two people walk into a hospital. Same symptoms. Same diagnosis. One receives a treatment that works like magic. The other? Nothing. Why? Because what’s written in our DNA is as unique as our fingerprint. And the hard truth is: the science that informs healthcare—its research, data, and trials—has been built on just a handful […]