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When:
October 21, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
2019-10-21T18:30:00+01:00
2019-10-21T19:30:00+01:00
Where:
Oxford Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre
10 Littlegate Street
St Ebbes, Oxford
OX1 1RL
10 Littlegate Street
St Ebbes, Oxford
OX1 1RL
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Breakthroughs using gene therapy and gene editing are regularly in the news, but how close in reality are we to them to be used to treat actual patients? Professor of Molecular Therapy and Co-Director of the Gene Medicine Research Group, Steve Hyde sorts the fact from the fiction as he discusses how viruses are being re-purposed to treat rare diseases such as leukaemia, blindness and haemophilia.