Impatient patients

Empowering the impatient patient revolution

Empowering the impatient patient revolution

February 28 is the Rare Disease Day, and the global theme this year is research.

People from all over the world will come together this month to advocate for more research on rare diseases, and to recognize the critical role that patient organizations play in research.

I am excited to join this year Rare Disease Day and announce the launch of my first eBook: #ImpatientRevolution, a guide for impatient patient organizations.

How close are we to creating transgenic people?

How close are we to creating transgenic people?

The journal Nature just released one of the most anticipated breaking news of the last few years: CRISPR gene editing has been tested in a person for the first time.  In my day-to-day work I interact with families that have a child with a genetic disease. I get one question a lot: how close are we to turn that discovery into a therapy for people with genetic diseases? 

 

Impatient patients

Impatient patients

One day I sent an e-mail that changed my life. During my training as a scientist, I had learned how to study what goes wrong with the brain and to research how we could fix it. Then one day I sent an e-mail to a patient.