Gao Lab

10/09/2017

https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2017/09/terence-flotte-guangping-gao-attend-international-conference-on-rare-diseases--orphan-drugs-in-china/

04/20/2017

Gao lab presented its research at the "Gene Therapy for Rare Diseases" event at the New York City Academy of Science.

03/24/2017

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.

03/05/2017

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

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

The decades-old treatment that was until recently thought too dangerous to work could be our only hope.

04/29/2016

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

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

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.

03/07/2016

@ Gao lab commented on via Twitter chat https://twitter.com/abcDrBchat?lang=en&lang=en

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03/02/2016

Gao Lab participated in the Twitter chat last week to help promoting awareness and research for rare diseases!