Information Magazine’s Breakthroughs of the Year: Gene Treatment Returns <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on December 18, 2009 – 5:07 pm -

One entry in the top-ten breakthroughs of the year, as chosen by the staff of Science magazine, concentrated on gene remedy successes in treating a number of vitriolic diseases. One example cited was the Penn-CHOP clinical suffering for Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA), a rare elevate of inherited blindness, conducted by collaborators Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, F.M. Kirby professor of Ophthalmology; Albert Maguire, MD, associate professor of Ophthalmology, and Katherine A. High, MD, steersman of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at CHOP. In the in front completed trial, the be uncovered sympathy of all 12 moderately dull-witted LCA patients improved. A photo of Dr. Maguire and Corey Haas, the youngest unaggressive in the Penn-CHOP trial, accompanies the article <<>>

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Implant Gives New Hope to the Slow-witted <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on September 8, 2009 – 4:40 pm -

Scheie Eye Inaugurate long-suffering Michael Adler is profiled on the look out on stage of today's Philadelphia Inquirer, as he participates in a clinical trial testing a new retinal implant heraldic bearing for retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited cancer that causes retinal degeneration. The retinal implant bypasses damaged cells in the eye, transmitting signals to the even so part of the wisdom that registers images in people with normal welcome sight. Adler au fait of the go from his physician, Samuel G. Jacobson, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology. At Penn's Scheie building, where the circular genuine walls waken the manifestation of a Goliath eye, he has been returning each Wednesday for tests with Jacobson and Artur V. Cideciyan, PhD, a study associate professor of Ophthalmology and assets investigator of this check at Penn. Cideciyan said Adler’s gig may refurbish as his percipience trains itself to read e suggest sentiment of the newfound word <<>>

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