Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
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Kasey Woleben | Cure Mito Foundation | Introduction |
Vamsi K. Mootha, MD | Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT | Keynote: ​Advances in Leigh Syndrome Research: Sterling Past, Golden Future |
Saima Kayani, MD | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Leigh Syndrome 101 |
Steven J. Gray, PhD | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | General Overview of Nervous System Targeted Gene Therapy |
Michal Minczuk, PhD | University of Cambridge, Pretzel Therapeutics | Mitochondrial Genome Engineering In Vivo |
Jessica L. Fetterman, PhD | iCAMP lab, Boston University School of Medicine | Gaining Insights into Mitochondrial Diseases Using Stem Cells |
Alessandro Prigione, MD, PhD | University of Düsseldorf, Germany | Patient-Derived Stem Cells and Brain Organoids for Modeling and Drug Discovery of Leigh Syndrome |
Simon C. Johnson, PhD | University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Research Institute | Immune-Mediated Disease Pathogenesis in Leigh Syndrome |
Joseph J. Bellucci, PhD | Rarebase | Applying A Precision Medicine Drug Discovery Platform to SURF1 Leigh Syndrome |
Anne N. Murphy, PhD | Cytokinetics | Challenges in Drug Discovery for Mitochondrial Disorders |
Matthew B. Klein, MD, MS, FACS | PTC Therapeutics | Insights from over a Decade of Experience in Mitochondrial Disease Drug Development |
Volkmar Weissig, ScD, PhD | Midwestern University | Development of New Drugs for Mitochondrial Diseases with a Focus on Leigh Syndrome |
Sophia Zilber | Cure Mito Foundation | Leigh Syndrome Global Patient Registry Updates |
Rhonda Facile, MS | Partnerships and Development, CDISC | CDISC and How Data Standards Can Help Drive Development of Mito Treatments |
Parag Shiralkar, MS, MBA | Sumptuous Data Sciences | Interoperability of Leigh Syndrome Patient Registry Data with Regulatory Submission Standards |
Alexandre Bétourné, PhD, PharmD, PMP | Critical Path Institute | The Rare Diseases Cures Accelerator Data and Analytics Platform: Accelerating Drug Development for Rare Mitochondrial Disorders. |
Shannon Rego O’Rourke, MS, CGC | Allstripes | SURF1-related Leigh Syndrome Health Data Insights |
Parents of Patients with Leigh Syndrome | N/A | Parent panel Jennifer Linnebach (USA) Krisztina Ferencz (Romania) Jorgelina Alvarez Barral (Argentina) |
Rachel Kramer, PhD | Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice | Parenting Children with Mitochondrial Disease: Finding Space for Parental Well-Being |
Jessica L. Fetterman, PhD and Kasey Woleben | iCAMP lab, Boston University School of Medicine and Cure Mito Foundation | Closing Remarks |