Inaugural Bill Moss AM Fellowship
[September 2011] Professor John Rasko, Chairman of the FSHD Global Scientific Grants Review Committee, presented the inaugural Bill Moss AM Fellowship to Dr. Leslie Caron at the FSHD Lindt Chocolate Ball held recently at the Four Seasons Hotel. Dr. Caron is a scientist with five years postdoctoral experience at Harvard Medical School, Boston and is working at Sydney IVF.
“To date Sydney IVF has derived three stem cell lines carrying the chromosomal deletion which is the molecular cause of FSHD. The availability of disease-affected stem cells is the first step towards a disease model which will help researchers to better understand the disease mechanism and ultimately to assist in the development of effective FSHD treatments,” said Dr. Caron.
“The critical next step towards these aims is to differentiate stem cells into muscle cells, the cell type most affected by FSHD and that is what I will be working towards,” concluded Dr. Caron.
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| Dr. Leslie Caron |
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