Introducing new GA4GH Community of Interest leadership!

4 Dec 2025

New Co-Leads have been appointed to the GA4GH-INCF Neuroscience and GA4GH Rare Disease Communities of Interest to advance responsible data sharing within specific genomic and health domains.

Please join us in welcoming Neuroscience Community Co-Lead Kelly Shen, PhD (Simon Fraser University), and Rare Disease Community Co-Leads Toyofumi Fujiwara (Database Center for Life Science, Research Organization of Information and Systems), Ada Hamosh (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), and Andra Waagmeester (Amsterdam UMC).

They join existing Neuroscience Co-Lead, Francis Jeanson (Ontario Brain Institute) and Rare Disease Co-Lead, Nicole Vasilevsky (Critical Path Institute (C-Path)) to guide the direction of these communities.

Get to know the new leads in the press release here.

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