Up to a year of treatment with DYNE-251, Dyne Therapeutics’ investigational exon 51-skipping therapy, led to improvements in motor…
Lindsey Shapiro, PhD
Lindsey earned her PhD in neuroscience from Emory University in Atlanta, where she studied novel therapeutic strategies for treatment-resistant forms of epilepsy. She was awarded a fellowship from the American Epilepsy Society in 2019 for this research. Lindsey also previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher, studying the role of inflammation in epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Articles by Lindsey Shapiro, PhD
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Agamree (vamorolone) is now available for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients, ages 2 and older, in the U.S.,…