One of the specialists who will attend the conference is dr. Dwi Kemaladewi. Together with an international team of scientists led by dr. Ronald Cohn, President and CEO, Senior Scientist, Paediatrician and Geneticist at SickKids hospital in Toronto she applied a modified version of the CRISPR gene-editing tool in a way that may eventually open…
A key element in this endeavour is bringing all MDC1A researchers together in Maastricht in November for a 3-day conference. Bram Verbrugge, father of Sara – with MDC1A – and chair of the foundation, is one of the initiators. He knows the impact MDC1A has on a child and experiences how difficult it is to…
Head of research of the University of Maastricht, Bert Smeets was recently interviewed in Algemeen Dagblad about the congres MDC1A The Road to therapy . Smeets, specialised in Mitochondrial dysfunction in metabolic, cardiovascular and neurological diseases, is highly impressed by the hard work and effort of Bram Verbrugge and Emine Kara. ,,The level of commitment…
