Symposium 'Engineering Hope: Gene Therapy in Action'

For whom
Alumni , Business , Employees , Students
When
20-03-2026 from 09:30 to 12:00
Where
UZ Ghent, Auditorium Nobel, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Ghent
Language
English
Organizer
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Contact
louise.carron@ugent.be

Lecture by gene therapy pioneer Prof dr. Jean Bennett

Programme

  • 09:30 – 10:05 - Honorary Doctor Prof Jean Bennett - Engineering Hope: Gene Therapy in Action
  •  10:05 – 10:40 - Prof Albert M. Maguire - Restoring Vision, Navigating Regulation: The Approval Path for Ocular Gene Therapies
  • 10:40 – 11:10 - Coffee Break
  • 11:10 – 11:20 - Yannick Duwe - RPE65 Gene Therapy: the Patient's Perspective 
  • 11:20 – 11:30 - Eline Van Vooren / Eline Geens - A Novel Dominant RPE65 Retinopathy - Discovery and Stem Cell Models
  •  11:30 – 11:40 - Filip Van den Broeck - A Novel Dominant RPE65 Retinopathy - Phenotypic Spectrum
  •  11:40 – 11:50 - Manon Bouckaert - New Strategies for Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapy
  •  11:50 – 12:00 - Julie Sambaer - Gene Therapy Trials at Ghent University Hospital
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