{"id":1561,"date":"2018-04-11T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2018-05-23T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T23:36:36","slug":"new-therapies-for-genetic-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2018\/04\/11\/new-therapies-for-genetic-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"New therapies for genetic diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/271189468?app_id=122963\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 11 April 2018\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Grand Round will present data on the latest clinical trials in Friedreich ataxia, haemochromatosis and inherited skeletal disorders (achondroplasia and Schmid chondrodysplasia). It will focus on how understanding the genetic basis of disorders can lead to targeted therapies and on innovative trial designs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Martin Delatycki<\/strong> is Medical Director of Victorian Clinical Genetics Services and co-Director of the Bruce Lefroy Centre at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He has clinical and research interest in neurogenetics and genetic screening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Ravi Savarirayan<\/strong> is a clinical geneticist and translational scientist working at the\u00a0Victorian Clinical Genetics Services,\u00a0and Group leader of Musculoskeletal Research at\u00a0Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Grand Round will present data on the latest clinical trials in Friedreich ataxia, haemochromatosis and inherited skeletal disorders (achondroplasia and Schmid chondrodysplasia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12675,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}