Mesa family hosting virtual walkathon for NKH awareness

May 17, 2020 |

MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – A Mesa family is hosting a “Zoom the Room” virtual walkathon to raise awareness for NKH and money for gene replacement therapy research, which could be life-saving for their little boy. Click to Watch video of the story on AZ Family. Lucas Culp was diagnosed with NKH, nonketotic hyperglicinemia, when…

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ZoomWalkathon.com Launched for Fundraising for Rare Disease

May 13, 2020 |

ZoomWalkathon.com Video Conferencing Lucas John Foundation is Actively Working to Save Children with Orphaned Rare Diseases FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   May 2020 (Mesa, Arizona) – The family of Brandon and Chancee Culp in Mesa, Arizona, is fighting for the life of their two-year-old son, Lucas John Culp. He was born in 2018 with a rare…

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Gene Therapy AAV-based COVID-19 vaccine

May 9, 2020 |

Luk Vandenberghe, a gene therapy researcher at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and at Harvard Medical School, is spearheading an effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine that uses an adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector to deliver genetic instructions for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein into human cells. AAV vectors are used in the two commercial gene therapies in…

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