New gene therapy research clinic

Title

New gene therapy research clinic

Genre

Interview

TX Date

27 Jan 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:02:49

Description

Mark Phillips interviews Professor Kay Davies, who will run a new clinic to be built at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School of London to conduct research into the use of gene therapy to correct inherited diseases.She says the clinic will focus on muscle disease and haemotological disorders, including the replacement of defective genes in muscular dystrophy patients.

Contributors

Mark Phillips; Kay Davies

Keywords

Medical research; Muscular dystrophy; Genetics; Gene therapy; Muscular diseases; Blood disorders; Royal Postgraduate Medical School

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