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Study of Rare Bone Disease Led by UMass Chan Researcher Jae-Hyuck Shim Reaches Important Milestone

By October 27, 2022No Comments

Progress by a UMass Chan Medical School researcher in developing a gene therapy for a rare, crippling bone disease has reached an important milestone with demonstration of proof-of-concept in a humanized mouse model of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) and human FOP patient-derived cells. The research is published inĀ Nature Communications.