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Özge Özkaya, PhD

Özge has a MSc. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Leicester and a PhD in Developmental Biology from Queen Mary University of London. She worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Leicester for six years in the field of Behavioural Neurology before moving into science communication. She worked as the Research Communication Officer at a London based charity for almost two years.

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Gene Controlling Muscle Regeneration in MD-like Diseases Identified in Study

The protein product of a gene called AUF1 determines whether muscle stem cells maintain the ability to regenerate muscles lost by injury or as a result of aging or disease, according to a study conducted on mice by researchers at New-York University (NYU), Langone Medical Center and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Duchenne MD Gene Therapy Project Awarded More Than $2M from Stem Cell Agency

California Stem Cell Agency (CIRM) awarded a total of $2,150,400, to scientists at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA, for a cutting-edge stem cell gene therapy research project that could produce a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (MD).