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Leslie Galloway

Research Landscapes: Shannon E. Boye, Ph.D.

Shannon E. Boye, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of ophthalmology, discusses her research involving developing gene therapies for devastating forms of blindness.

Gene therapy: Hope for the blind?

In medicine, doctors often talk about treatments, but rarely about cures. Now, gene therapy is offering the potential to actually cure certain diseases and an experimental breakthrough could one day help blind patients see.

Genzyme Collaborates on Gene Therapy for Rare Disease that Causes Childhood Blindness

Genzyme, a Sanofi company (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), today announced the establishment of a research collaboration with the University of Florida and the University of Pennsylvania to develop a gene therapy for the treatment of a rare genetic disease that causes childhood blindness. Leber congenital amaurosis type 1 (LCA-1)…

Examining advances in AAV vector for retinal gene therapy

Much work is being done with Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for application in retinal gene therapy, with modifications being made to the capsid and genome of the vector to generate novel variants with unique transduction profiles, according to Shannon Boye, PhD…