Research Seminar Series

The BSGCT Research Seminars are a series of online sessions for researchers to focus on and discuss the latest developments in gene and cell therapy. The seminars are FREE to attend, and take place live and online.

Next Event

Details will be announced here shortly.

CPD Credits: BSGCT members can claim 6 CPD credits for attending these seminars. These credits can be claimed by current members who are registered with the Royal Society of Biology CPD scheme. Details of how to claim the credits will be provided during the seminar.

Previous Seminars

Spinal muscular atrophy - what’s next?

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Speaker: Prof. Laurent Servais, University of Oxford

Three diseases modifying therapies are now approved for use by NICE, but a huge burden remains for family and patients. Indeed, SMA remains associated with a severe disability in patients diagnosed after developing symptoms.
What are the next steps? Could the association of drugs provide an additional benefit? Is there any other target that could be considered? Finally, could newborn screening constitute a valuable solution to decrease patient and societal burden in the long term?

Starting an academic vector core facility

Speaker: Dr. Giulia Massaro, University College London

Dr Giulia Massaro is a NHIR GOSH BRC Research Fellow in Translational AAV Technology at the UCL School of Pharmacy. After her MRes in Functional Genomics at the University of Trieste and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, she joined Prof. Ahad Rahim’s Lab at UCL to complete her PhD in Gene Therapy working on rare paediatric diseases of infants. Since 2013 she has been involved in many translational gene therapy projects, collaborating with both academia and industry, focusing on rare neurological disorders with unmet medical need. In 2020 Dr Massaro opened the NeuroGTx Viral Synthesis Facility, a state-of-the-art vector production laboratory for research-grade viral vectors.