Florida Sunshine Genetics Law offers newborns free genome sequencing, a first in the country

After losing his son Drew to Tay-Sachs Disease in 2019, Adam Anderson’s life took on a new path. He ran for local office in Florida and became a leader in rare disease policy, creating a new genetic screening program that allows parents of newborns to receive free whole genome sequencing at birth, putting the state at the forefront of newborn screening.