ERC Starting Grant · 2017
The severe combined immunodeficiencies (SCIDs) are a set of life threatening genetic diseases in which patients are born with mutations in single genes and are unable to develop functional immune systems. While allogeneic bone marrow transplantation can be curative for these diseases, there remain significant limitations to this approach. Gene therapy using viral vectors containing a corrective transgene is being developed for some of these disorders, most successfully for ADA-SCID. However, for other SCID disorders, such as those caused by genetic mutations in RAG1 and RAG2, the transgene needs to be expressed in a precise, developmental and lineage specific manner to achieve functional…
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