Therapeutic Genetics and Disease Modeling in Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

The Cell and Gene Therapy Collaborative invites you to attend a faculty recruitment seminar:

"Therapeutic Genetics and Disease Modeling in Congenital Muscular Dystrophy"

Dwi Utami Kemaladewi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:

Dr. Kemaladewi has a long-standing interest in the development of therapeutic genetics for rare neuromuscular and neurological disorders. She was born in Indonesia and received her BSc in Life Sciences from Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 2007. She earned her PhD in Human Genetics from Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands in 2012 on the use of antisense oligonucleotides to blunt detrimental pro-fibrotic signaling mechanism in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, under mentorship from Dr. Peter 't Hoen and the late Dr. Gert-Jan van Ommen. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at SickKids Hospital, Toronto, Canada with Dr. Ronald Cohn, in which she exploited the CRISPR/Cas9 technology to develop creative therapeutic approaches for LAMA2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy.

Host: Beverly Davidson, PhD

Please e-mail webber@chop.edu if you would like to meet with the speaker.