🧪 The UCL Genetics Society Journal Club is back!
Join us for our first session of the year with Ms. Ziyu Jiang, PhD student in Genomic Medicine at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.
Her research focusses on developing a gene therapy for Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis type 2 (PFIC2), a rare inherited liver disorder caused by a mutation to the gene encoding a bile acid transport protein, leading to the build-up of bile acid within liver cells. Symptoms appear in infancy and, without treatment, can progress rapidly to liver failure in early childhood.
Here’s what you can expect!
- Hear first-hand from a PhD researcher about her cutting-edge work
- Learn more about gene therapy and genetic medicine, approaches with the potential to tackle conditions once thought to be untreatable
- Ask your questions on PhD life, postgraduate study and careers in academia during our Q&A session - a unique opportunity to network and gain advice
🧬 This event is part of our October Journal Club theme Gene and Nucleic Acid Therapies, the first in a series of monthly themes designed to give you broad introductions to key areas of genetics. Look forward to a new Journal Club session every two weeks throughout the year, each led by inspiring researchers from UCL and beyond.