Presentation
Genes as Medicine: Molecular Therapy Comes of Age
The University of Iowa
Presidential Lecture Series, 28th (Iowa City, Iowa)
02/27/2011
Abstract
Davidson will discuss the history, recent successes and future potential of gene-based therapies in her lecture. "This is a really exciting time for molecular medicine. We are finally starting to see clinical successes for this type of therapy and I think there will be more to come in the next five to ten years." Some of those advances may come from Davidson's own research. She and her colleagues have developed gene-replacement and gene-silencing techniques to treat inherited brain disorders including fatal, childhood onset neurodegenerative diseases and brain destroying disorders like Huntington's Disease. Both approaches -- adding a gene, or silencing one -- have proven successful in mice models of these disorders. Davidson is now testing them in larger animal models and hopes to move her work to human clinical trials within five years.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Genes as Medicine: Molecular Therapy Comes of Age
- Creators
- Beverly Davidson - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Presentation
- Event
- Presidential Lecture Series, 28th (Iowa City, Iowa)
- Publisher
- The University of Iowa
- Comment
- Language
- English
- Date presented
- 02/27/2011
- Academic Unit
- Presidential Lecture Series; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983557259702771
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