Gene therapy slows progression of fatal neurodegenerative disease in children

“This clinical trial is an important step toward the development of treatments for this group of underserved inherited neurodegenerative disorders,” says James M. Wilson, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief and Head of the Gene Therapy Program, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in Philadelphia.

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