Author: Birte Zurek

Solve-RD partner CNAG-CRG is lookig for a communications and data helpdesk coordinator to for the RD-Connect Genome-Phenome Analysis Platform to participate in Solve-RD and other related projects.

More info can be found here. Application deadline is 9 May 2021!

The EURORDIS-led Community Engagement Task Force (CETF) has created an infographic setting out the patient journey to diagnosis. The infographic demonstrates the diagnostic odyssey many people experience on a daily basis and presents existing resources from CETF member organisations to support patients on this journey. The infographic is available in 16 languages!

You will find more info here.

Solve-RD partner CNAG-CRG is lookig for a PhD student to work on strategies for molecular diagnosis of rare disease patients through integrated analysis of proteomics, metabolomics, genomics and phenomics data. The early-stage researcher (ESR) will be part of the European Innovative Training Network PROTrEIN.

More info can be found here. Application deadline is 31 January 2021!

Solve-RD uses the RD-Connect Genome-Phenome Analysis Platform (GPAP) to analyse exome and genome sequencing data of rare disease patients. GPAP now includes a new module: the RD-Connect GPAP-PhenoStore.

You can access GPAP-PhenoStore via the "Access Phenotypic Data Submission" button on the GPAP Homepage. There you will also find a link to the new GPAP-PhenoStore User Guidelines and a summary video of the new module.

RD-Connect PhenoTips has now been retired. You will access GPAP-PhenoStore with the same credentials you use for the GPAP analysis platform.

The online seminar the GPAP team hold on 26 November is available here.

Solve-RD has been invited as an Outreach Partner of the next EURORDIS Black Pearl Awards! We are very happy about that and gladly accepted the invite.

Photo submissions for the Photo Award 2021 are now open, until 31st January 2021. You can submit your photo and find more information here: www.blackpearl.eurordis.org/photo-award.

The mitochondrial genomics group in Cambridge, UK (Professor Patrick Chinnery and Dr. Rita Horvath, @HorvathLab) is seeking a talented Bioinformatician in computational biology/computer science/bioinformatics to join a team of clinical and laboratory scientists who are studying the role of genetic variation and differences in gene expression in rare inherited neurological diseases, including mitochondrial disorders. The bioinformatician will also work on Solve-RD.

Application deadline: 1 November 2020. For details see here.