Groundbreaking Gene Therapy Restores Natural Hearing for Genetic Deafness
On this episode of Advances in Care, Erin Welsh speaks with Dr. Lawrence Lustig, otolaryngologist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia. Dr. Lustig has spent decades working to advance various interventions to treat genetic deafness and after years of research, his team was the first to show that gene therapies could be effective at reversing hearing loss in mouse models.
Dr. Lustig focused his initial study on otoferlin, a gene that is missing in people with a rare form of genetic deafness, and how to safely deliver it back to patients. Starting with mouse models and solving for the…
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