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Developmental Neurosciences Summer Symposium
26 July 2019, 10:00 am–1:00 pm
The Developmental Neurosciences Summer Symposium will be held at the UCL GOS of Institute of Child Health on 26th July. The theme for 2019 is "Genetic Therapies" and the symposium will finish with an Otto Wolff Lecture given by Ronald Cohn of SickKids Toronto.
Event Information
Open to
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Organiser
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Developmental Neurosciences Programme
Location
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Kennedy Lecture Theatre238: ICH, Wellcome Trust Building30 Guildford StreetLondonWC1N 1EHUnited Kingdom
10am Welcome and Introduction
Professor Helen Cross OBE
Prince of Wales’ Chair of Childhood Epilepsy and Head of Developmental Neurosciences Programme, UCL GOS ICH
10.10 Professor Paul Gissen
Head of Genetic and Genomic Medicine Programme, UCL GOS ICH
Novel therapies in metabolic neurodegenerative disorders
10.35 Dr Rajvinder Karda
Research Associate, UCL Institute for Women’s Health
Gene Therapy for devastating childhood neurological disorders
11.00 Professor Simon Waddington
Professor of Gene Therapy, UCL Institute for Women’s Health
Fetal Gene Therapy
11.30 Refreshment break on the Balcony
12.00 Otto Wolff Lecture Dr Ronald Cohn, President and CEO at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids Toronto)
Precision Child Health: A New Era on the Horizon
13.00 Close
All welcome to attend
Contact: ich.dn.programme@ucl.ac.uk