Sunday 29th Programme

Session 5: Accelerating on the bumpy road to therapy

The bumpy road to therapy - Bert Smeets

8:30 - 8:50

Triple AAV gene therapy to express full-length LAMA2 - Marc Güell

Mesenchymal-derived cells and tissues as therapeutic targets for MDC1A - Maria Pallarés Masmitjà

8:50 - 9:10

9:10 - 9:30

3D Engineered Muscle Tissues Enable Longitudinal Muscle Functional Studies for Neuromuscular Disease - Mohammad Khoonkari, Hamed Ghazizadeh (CuriBio)

9:30 - 9:50

Linker-based gene therapy for LAMA2-RD - Markus Rüegg

9:50 - 10:10

Coffee break

10:10 - 10:30

The power of patients - Jasmin Barman-Aksözen

10:30 - 11:00

A role for patient advocacy groups -Gustavo Dziewczapolski, Bram Verbrugge

11:00 - 11:20

A role for rare disease research foundations/regulatory authorities - Giorgia Crimi, Federica Miotto (Fondazione Telethon, Italy)

11:20 - 11:40

iPSC models for LAMA2-RD -Józef Dulak

11:40 - 12:00

Clinical Evaluation of LAMA1 Upregulation: Translating Decades of Research to Meaningful Outcomes for LAMA2-RD Patients - Simon Moore (Modalis)

12:00 -12:20

Joining forces towards an accessible and affordable therapy - TBC/Bert Smeets

12:20 - 12:50

Closure of the meeting - Haluk Topaloğlu,Bert Smeets, and Bram Verbrugge

12:50 - 13:00

Closing lunch

13:00 - 14:00