On Sunday May 5th at 11:30 Jeanette Erdmann will give a public talk about rare diseases and the potential of therapies based on genetic findings.
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Even though every single rare disease is rare on its own, many people are affected in the sum of all these diseases: in Germany alone about four million people. The technological developments of recent years, however, give cause for optimism, as a rapid development in the unravelling of the hereditary causes of these diseases can be observed.
At the same time, the number of therapeutic approaches using genetic scissors or other state-of-the-art methods from genetic research is increasing.
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jeanette Erdmann is head of the Institute for Cardiogenetics at the University of Lübeck and the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck. In her Sunday lecture, she presents selected examples of causes and hopeful therapeutic approaches for muscle diseases.