Professor Aartsma-Rus receives Ammodo Science Award
Professor Annemieke Aartsma-Rus from Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) has received the Ammodo Science Award for her research into the muscular disease Duchenne.
Professor Annemieke Aartsma-Rus from Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) has received the Ammodo Science Award for her research into the muscular disease Duchenne. But that is not all. In late February, a gene therapy for Duchenne, of which Aartsma-Rus and colleagues are the founders, was approved for use in patients in the United States.
For years, Aartsma-Rus has been researching the hereditary muscular disease Duchenne, which occurs mainly in boys. Aartsma-Rus' group was one of the first in the world to show that a certain form of gene therapy, exon skipping, could slow down the disease. For this important work, she received the Ammodo Science Award on March 9.
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