UF researcher Dr. Shannon Boye has developed a safer gene therapy now in clinical trials that is already helping patients with inherited eye diseases regain vision.
Dr. Shannon Boye is a scientist and entrepreneur at the University of Florida who has spent more than two decades developing gene therapies for inherited eye diseases. Her latest work has been focused on finding a noninvasive way to treat gene mutations that affect young children.
Humans are made up of DNA containing genes, which produce the proteins that perform the body’s essential functions, including converting light into vision in the eye, Boye explained in an interview with The Sun. When a gene contains a mutation, it either fails to produce its intended protein or produces one too misshapen to work properly, causing that function to break down entirely.
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