Precision Prediction and Prenatal Intervention for SCD: A Multimodal Biomarker Approach

28 Jan 2026
Women & Children's Health Stage
  • Why current prenatal diagnostics for monogenic disorders provide genotype but not phenotype, and how this limits early counselling and intervention planning.
  • Path to prenatal translation, including opportunities for early in-utero monitoring, patient-specific counselling, and precision fetal-medicine interventions.
  • Case example: a data-driven framework for stratifying disease severity in sickle cell disease using integrated clinical, laboratory and machine-learning approaches to develop future prenatal prediction tools.
  • A multimodal biomarker strategy combining fetal genetics, maternal biomarkers, early placental signals, and clinical risk factors to improve prediction of postnatal disease trajectories.
Speakers
Panicos Shangaris
Panicos Shangaris,  Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Maternal and Fetal Medicine - King's College London