On Monday, June 27, the Society to improve Physics, Medicine and Surgery (Genootschap ter bevordering van Natuur-, Genees- en Heelkunde) is organizing a scientific evening on 'Huntington's Disease'.
Amsterdam Neuroscience
The Society to improve Physics, Medicine and Surgery (Genootschap ter bevordering van Natuur-, Genees- en Heelkunde) is organizing a scientific evening on 'Huntington's Disease'. There will be sandwiches in advance of the event, and drinks after.
Huntington's disease is a hereditary brain disease with the symptoms of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS, and which is often a big taboo within many families. A Dutch campaign has been launched from Amsterdam to break this taboo, and NWO recently awarded an NWA consortium with the title CureQ: predicting, delaying and curing hereditary brain diseases (www.cureq.nl).
Within this consortium, researchers, neurologists, biotech (including the Amsterdam companies uniQure and VectorY) and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam will work together with patient associations. Focus is the use of cells from gene carriers for better prediction, and for validation of new therapeutic strategies. An overview of recent research developments will be presented by Prof. Eric Reits (Amsterdam UMC and coordinator CureQ).
After the break dr. Melvin Evers, vice president of research of UniQure, will explain the gene therapy trial they recently started with the aim of inhibiting the production of the mutant huntington protein.
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Location: | Amsterdam UMC, locatie AMC (Meibergdreef) in Lecture Hall 2 |
Directions: | Lecture Hall 2: Building J, left of the entrance of the Vrolik Museum (see green circle in the left upper corner). Reachable via the student entrance (2) or the main entrance (1) and the green marked route. |
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Costs: | This event is free of charge |
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Contact | gngh@uva.nl |
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