In the weekend from Friday the 15th to Sunday the 17th of November in 2019, we held the first international conference on the rare, inheritable muscular dystrophy MDC1A (Merosin Deficient Congenital muscular dystrophy type 1a). The Friday and Sunday of the conference were only accessible to experts. On Saturday the 16th patients, their parents and…
Under supervision of prof. dr. Bert Smeets, the Generate your Muscle (GYM) group was formed and is in cooperation with Stichting Voor Sara organizing the conference in November. GYM is a group of ambitious students from Maastricht University participating in the FHML Honours Programme. This is an interdisciplinary programme at the University of Maastricht providing…
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…
