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A visit with Christian Lorson, Associate Professor of Veterinary Medicine
Published: February 25, 2010 - Topics:
SMA
Spinal_Muscular_Atrophy
pediatric_neurodegenerative_disease
infantile_death
research
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Looking Forward
Topics:
research
clinical_trials
With research under his belt, Lorson hopes that his team can start to establish clinical trials to test the therapeutic programs they have developed. “The next step is to launch it into animal models and prove efficacy, showing that you can turn around the SMA phenotype [gene expression].”