A potentially fatal disease loomed over Isabelle’s young life – until doctors at UVA Children’s put gene therapy to work. See how far she’s come, from threatened to thriving.
Isabelle’s story is another example of how breakthroughs in areas such as gene therapy and nanotechnology hold so much promise for the future of patient health and disease treatment. They are the kinds of efforts that inspired creation of the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology, announced Friday by the University of Virginia to accelerate research of cutting-edge cures and treatments for Virginians and beyond.
