Progress in Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Reason for Optimism

The Kingston University Rose Award Lecture Series presents

Progress in Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Reason for Optimism

Wed 27 Jun

4pm - 5.30pm

We would like to invite you to hear a FREE lecture by Oxford University Professor Dame Kay E Davies on Duchenne Muscular Distrophy (DMD).

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The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing at Kingston University is running a series of FREE lectures on high profile topics, delivered by key professionals and academics in their field.

Each event will also provide opportunities to network, exchange ideas and to engage with the local community.

Professor Kay Davies will discuss Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) - a rare genetic condition with devastating progressive muscle wasting for which there is no cure.

DMD affects approximately 1 in every 3,500 boys. Before the advent of DNA technology, carrier detection for DMD was unreliable and prenatal diagnosis was not possible. Now, using DNA markers, diagnostic tests are now routine in diagnostic laboratories around the world.

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Professor Dame Kay E Davies
Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies is a British geneticist. She is the Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at Oxford University and a fellow of Hertford College. She is Director of the MRC Functional Genetics Unit, a Governor of the Wellcome Trust and a Director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function.

In the 1980s, she developed a test which allowed for the screening of foetuses whose mothers have a high risk of carrying DMD. Dame Davies discovered that the utrophin protein has similar properties to dystrophin and has since shown that up regulation of the utrophin protein in muscle cells can compensate for the absence of dystrophin.