Professional Training
Nowgen runs a comprehensive programme of workshops and training courses on human genetics and related subjects.
These courses are run for health professionals, members of the clinical genetics community, and non-specialist audiences, such as teachers.
We continually assess the need for new courses, so please contact either Kate Mathieson or Mark Leech with potential ideas.
Click here for information on current courses.
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Current Collaborations
- The North West Regional Genetics Service
- The National Genetics Education and Development Centre
- The Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research at The University of Manchester
- The UK DNA Banking Network at The University of Manchester
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory Salisbury, UK.
Courses are accredited by the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal College of Physicians, or other professional body, as appropriate.
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Previous Courses
- Newborn Screening for Midwives and Health Visitors
- Genetics for Paediatricians
- Breast and Bowel Cancer Risk Assessment.
- Genetics for Oncology Pharmacists,
- Pharmacogenetics Study Days
- Economics of Genetic Technologies
- Ethics and Law for the Genetics Community;
- Genetics for Ethics Committee Members
- Communication Skills for Geneticists
- The Human Tissue Act in Practice
- Teacher workshop: Exciting Experiments and Dynamic Debates
Several of these courses will run again in 2008/2009; please return to this site for notification of future dates.
Professional Training in the Nowgen Laboratory 
MSc in Genetic Counselling
The first Genetic Counselling MSc in Europe was started in Manchester and continues to be one of the most highly rated courses of its type in the EU. The two-year course is run by the Academic Unit of Medical Genetics at The University of Manchester. The majority of the teaching is delivered at The Nowgen Centre, with several Nowgen staff contributing to the course. For more information on the MSc course, click here.
Investigators
Helen Middleton-Price, Peter Finegold, Kate Mathieson, Mark Leech
Publications
To view all Nowgen publications click here
Key Publications
Donnai D, Read AP. How clinicians add to knowledge of development. Lancet 362: 2003; 477-484
Read AP, Donnai D. New Clinical Genetics Scion Publishing Ltd; 1st edition 2007; ISBN-10: 1904842313; ISBN-13: 978-1904842316
M. J. Leech, F. Salway, F. Jury, P. Day, D. Carthy, K. Mathieson, P. Finegold, D. Donnai, H. Middleton-Price. Development of molecular biology laboratory training courses for health care professionals at the North West Genetics Knowledge Park in the UK. (154kb) ESHG Conference. France, June 2007.
