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Young Female Researcher Bursary of Fighting Blindness

4/11/2022

 
We're delighted to announce that the winner of our Young Female Researcher Bursary is Iris Post. Iris' work is #DrivingTheCure for Stargardt Disease. The bursary is a €1000 career development award proudly supported by @askits4women. A short video by Iris on her research topic can be seen on the right.
Congrats Iris!

Pietro De Angeli (ESR12) presented at Retina 2021

11/5/2021

 
Congrats Pietro for your oral presentation at Retina 2021!
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Melita Kaltak was awarded for her poster by the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society

10/22/2021

 
Melita Kaltak (ProQR Therapeutics NV) was selected as Poster Award Winner at the latest Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society meeting for her work on an antisense oligonucleotide-mediated therapeutic approach for one of the most common Stargardt disease-causing variants in ABCA4. Very well done Melita!
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Münevver Burcu Cicekdal got to present a poster @ ESHG 2021 meeting

9/1/2021

 
At the recent European Society for Human Genetics meeting, Münevver Burcu Cicekdal presented her work on abca4 regulatory elements in Xenopus tropicalis. Keep it up!
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Eugenio Pugni was selected for an oral presentation @ ESHG 2021 meeting

9/1/2021

 
At the recent European Society for Human Genetics meeting Eugenio Pugni from the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine presented his latest work. In a collaboration with several other Italian institutions in the Naples area, he constructed a ABCA4 knock-out pig model which is currently being used to investigate and develop gene therapy options for Stargardt disease. Impressive work Eugenio!
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Münevver Burcu Cicekdal wins the poster prize @ the 18th International Xenopus Conference 2021

8/30/2021

 
Münevver Burcu Cicekdal from Vleminckx lab at Ghent Univeristy and StarT member won the poster prize at the 18th International Xenopus conference for her work on rare human genetic disorders using Xenopus tropicalis as a model organism. Well done Burcu!
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Pietro de Angeli wins second prize in the ZEISS Presentation Award @ Young Researcher Vision Camp 2021

7/23/2021

 
 Pietro De Angeli from the Institute for Ophthalmic Research at the University of Tübingen and StarT member came in second for the ZEISS Presentation Award at Young Researcher Vision Camp 2021. He presented his work on CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing for excision and rescue of deep-intronic mutations in ABCA4. Congratulations Pietro!
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Benjamin McClinton wins a Members in Training award @ARVO2021

6/3/2021

 
StarT member Benjamin McClinton from the University of Leeds won a Members in Training award for his poster titled Using Oxford Nanopore long-range sequencing to phase ABCA4 at the ARVO2021 meeting. Congratulations Benjamin!
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New paper out!

3/23/2021

 
Our manuscript in which we unravel complex structural variants involving CEP78, using long-read sequencing, in patients with cone-rod dystrophy with hearing loss was provisionally accepted by Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. Keep an eye on the official release date here.

'StarT in action!'

2/22/2021

 
The StarT consortium would like to participate in a fundraising activity 'StarT in action!' on the occasion of the International Day of Rare Diseases 2021 on February 28.

Everyone knows the unicorn, but no one has ever actually seen one. Unicorns only exist in a world of myth and fantasy. On the other hand, people with a rare disease do exist. And they are numerous… About 500,000 Belgians have a rare disease.
On the occasion of the International Day of Rare Diseases 2021 on February 28, we participate in the RadiOrg campaign “Not a Unicorn”. Because people with a rare disease are not unicorns. They really exist.
And you can help make them visible!
Sporty top athletes from UZ Gent and UGent will walk, run or cycle between 17 and 28 February 2021. They will be sponsored for this.

Would you like to sponsor our running, walking and cycling actions for 'StarT in action!' You can support StarT in action here:
Please spread the word via your social media! Follow us on Twitter @ITN_StarT and Instagram start_itn

Thank you in advance!
StarT fundraising team
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) under grant No.
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