UF Health Gene Therapy Scientist Named to Florida Inventors Hall of Fame

The kid was curious about how things worked. One day in his grandparents’ New Jersey home, the 8-year-old spied an old mantel clock that hadn’t worked in years, its hands frozen in time. The boy, unable to resist, looked at it and wondered if he could fix it.

He began taking it apart.

In a sense, University of Florida Health pediatric cardiologist and geneticist Barry Byrne, M.D., Ph.D., never stopped trying to repair that errant timepiece.

Byrne, director of the UF Powell Center for Rare Disease Research and Therapy and a gene therapy pioneer with about 23 patents in the field, will be inducted into the 2024 class of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame in the fall, the organization announced May 30.

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