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All tickets to this event are now sold out.  We'll be video recording Professor Hood's lecture which will be available on our website in the coming weeks.

Listen to Professor Leroy Hood on ABC's The World Today program with Eleanor Hall.

25 years ago, scientists embarked on one of the greatest feats of exploration in history - The Human Genome Project.  This voyage of discovery mapped all of the genes that make up a human being.  It took 13 years and cost almost $3 billion to unlock and read, for the first time, nature's complete genetic blueprint for building a human.

Today, with rapid advances in technology, we can create a complete genetic code for a human in a matter of hours for less than a thousand dollars.  This gives us billions of pieces of health-relevant information about a person and the ability to sculpt their individual potential for wellness and for disease.

With the new knowledge and technologies in biology and informatics that is at our fingertips, we are on the cusp of a revolution in healthcare that will bring enormous opportunities.  Personalised medicine.  Medicine that is more predictive, preventative, personalised and participatory and improves the quality of care delivered to both children and adults through better diagnoses and targeted treatments and therapies.

Professor Leroy Hood is at the forefront of the personalised medicine frontier.  Internationally recognised for his work in genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology and immunology, Leroy is one of only 15 scientists in the world who has been inducted to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.  

When Leroy talks, lots of people listen.

At this special Telethon Kids Institute Silver Anniversary lecture, Leroy will share his career journey and talk about how we are now at an enormous tipping point in healthcare through the emergence of personalised medicine.  What does this new frontier in medicine mean for you?

Leroy will be joined by one of Australia's best science communicators, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.  Karl has degrees in Physics and Maths, Biomedical Engineering, Medicine and Surgery and has worked as a physicist, tutor, film-maker, car mechanic, labourer, and as a medical doctor at the Kids' Hospital in Sydney. A familiar face and voice in the media, Karl is also a prolific writer having published 38 books.