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Research Spotlight Webinar: "Using CRISPR for Huntington’s Disease Drug Development" with Ricardo Mouro Pinto

  • Hereditary Disease Foundation 601 W168th Street, Suite 54 New York, NY, 10032 United States (map)

About the Speaker

Ricardo Mouro Pinto, PhD
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
2023 Transformative Research Award Recipient

Dr. Mouro Pinto is interested in human genetics and neurosciences, with a strong research focus on repeat expansion-associated disorders, such as Huntington’s disease and Friedreich's Ataxia, particularly concerning mechanisms of trinucleotide repeat instability.

Dr. Mouro Pinto received HDF’s 2023 Transformative Research Award for his project developing genome editing therapeutics that target the cause of the CAG repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease. If successful, this work will lead to pre-clinical studies testing the effect of altering MLH3, MSH3, and PMS1 on behavior of mice that model HD.

Earlier Event: January 16
Research Spotlight Webinar: "Huntington's Disease Research: History and Hope" with Sarah Hernandez
Later Event: March 21
Research Spotlight Webinar: "Decoding Huntington's Disease: Unveiling the Connection with Genetic Material" with Jeffrey Carroll, Rachel Harding, and Tamara Maiuri
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