conferred by EURORDIS
- 2018
- Professor Michele De Luca and Doctor Tobias Hirsch, as well as their respective teams at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine “Stefano Ferrari” (CMR) at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) and the Severe Burn Injury Centre of the University Hospital of the Ruhr University, in Bochum (Germany) for their collaboration in developing a life-changing gene therapy. This therapy, which enables the human epidermis to regenerate through the use of transgenic stem cells, recently saved the life of a young boy named Hassan, affected by the rare disease junctional epidermolysis bullosa (EB).
