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Gao Lab is interested in Adeno-associated virus (AAV) based Gene Therapy for rare diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral organs.
10/09/2017
Gao lab presented its research at the "Gene Therapy for Rare Diseases" event at the New York City Academy of Science.
Gao lab is going to talk, among other scientists, at the Annual NTSAD family conference in Dallas, TX about clinical trial readiness for Canavan disease and other rare diseases.
Dr. Gao's lab published new work showing complete rescue of Canavan disease using rAAV based gene therapy.
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/90807
JCI Insight - Redirecting N-acetylaspartate metabolism in the central nervous system normalizes myelination and rescues Canavan disease University Hospital Heidelberg, Centre for Child and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Child Neurology and Metabolic Medicine,
05/25/2016
Gao lab presented its work at the inKNOWvation event in Cambridge, MA.
05/06/2016
Newsweek featured Dr. Gao's career-long dedication and work to develop gene therapy for Canavan Disease and being ready for a clinical trial after years of intensive vector development and testing.
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/06/gene-therapy-brain-disease-453217.html
Gene therapy might be our best, and perhaps only, hope for curing brain diseases The decades-old treatment that was until recently thought too dangerous to work could be our only hope.
Gao lab will be presenting its research covering AAV biology, discovery and manufacturing, vector design, immunology, miRNA therapeutics, CRISPR, corneal disease, prostate cancer and Canavan Disease at the ASGCT 2016 in Washington DC during the first week of May.
04/21/2016
Gao lab participated in the NTSAD 2016 research update session, Orlando FL, talking about progress in Canavan Disease gene therapy (second speaker)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZmv6bGTQ0E
2016 NTSAD Research Update This session was recorded live at the April 2016 NTSAD Family Confernce in Orlando Florida.
04/10/2016
Gao lab published a new manuscript supporting the involvment of peripheral organs in Canavan disease.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27039844
rAAV gene therapy in a Canavan's disease mouse model reveals immune impairments and an extended... Mol Ther. 2016 Apr 4. doi: 10.1038/mt.2016.68. [Epub ahead of print]
03/14/2016
Gao lab's farewell dinner for YuanYuan and Jianzhong. YuanYuan (graduate student) was working on gene therapy related immunology and Jianzhong (postdoc) focued on prostate cancer and AAV.
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