Developing a new gene therapy
Research Information Team
In the session on therapeutic strategies and treatment approaches, we’ve heard seven talks about new therapies being developed and new ways to find possible treatments.
One talk was given by Dr Irina Antonijevic from biotech company Trace Neuroscience. Trace Neuroscience aims to develop new gene therapies by focusing on a protein called UNC13A which becomes faulty in people with MND. UNC13A plays an important role in regulating communication between neurones and muscles, but in MND there are...