ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) accumulate somatic mutations during aging, which may drive clonal expansion of their progeny. This clonal imbalance promotes cancer and often establish systemic inflammation contributing to frequent diseases of aging. Disentangling and tackling clonal imbalance of hematopoiesis is thus an urgent challenge with substantial medical implications for a progressively aging population. VEXAS syndrome is a novel, adult-onset, devastating disease with growing number of patients. It is caused by the expansion of pro-inflammatory hematopoietic clones acquiring somatic mutations of the UBA1 gene. Its pathophysiology is elusive, and treatments are unsatisfactory leading…
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