Precision Medicine Thursdays at Venture Café
Attendance is FREE. Registration available at the event.
Speakers
Patricia Dickson, MD, Division Chief, Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Professor of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis
More is better: enzyme replacement for lysosomal storage disorders
Jonathan Cooper, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis
One and done? Gene therapy for lysosomal storage disorders
There are over seventy fatal inherited diseases that kill because the lysosome, the cell’s waste disposal and recycling center, stops working properly. This is because of mutations in a gene that should make a vital part of the lysosomal machinery. In theory, this should be simple to repair either by giving back what is missing (enzyme replacement therapy) or by providing a working copy of the faulty gene that encodes the enzyme (gene therapy). We shall discuss the pluses and minuses of each approach, where we are in bringing these treatments to the clinic, and how these treatments may be commercialized.
On the third Thursday of every month , ICTS Precision Medicine hosts a session featuring WashU faculty working in translational genomics/precision medicine areas. Talks are typically oriented toward biotechnology, diagnostics, informatics, start-ups and precision interventions based on medical genomics innovations.