Jeans for Genes

Jeans for Genes Day at the FPM office

This week we are celebrating Jeans for Genes.

FPM staff were encouraged to wear double, triple, and in some cases quadruple-denim on Wednesday 18 September and they made personal donations to the campaign.

We have a collection box available at our office and are accepting donations up until Friday 27 September 2019 for any visiting members or guests who wish to make a contribution. All money raised will go to Genetic Disorders UK.

Meet a Gene Expert

We also caught up with the chair of the FPM Orphan Diseases/Gene Therapy expert group Dr Rohit Batta.

Rohit sent us the following photograph and message which we have shared on our social channels:

JRR Tolkien wrote “Not All Who Wander Are Lost” – for decades we have voyaged around the science of vectors and cell processing trying to decipher how gene therapy could become a treatment modality, and now today it is finding home to many devastating diseases such as ADA-SCID where an untreated child is left with a powerless immune system, and gene therapy could replenish vital white cells. Today’s healthcare systems are not necessarily built for these one time treatments so we need to find a way to work together and perhaps wander a little more…