On behalf of all ProQRians, happy Rare Disease Day 2022. Both within ProQR and outside, we join the community in raising awareness and trying to generate change for people worldwide living with a rare disease, their families, and supporters.
ARVO 2021 presentation by Stephen R. Russell from Iowa University on the Safety and efficacy of sepofarsen in the second treated eye in a Ph1b/2 extension trial in CEP290 mediated Leber Congenital Amaurosis type 10.
ARVO 2020 clinical trial results presentation by Stephen Russel et al. Sepofarsen had a manageable safety profile and showed improvement in mean visual acuity, and full-field stimulus testing.
AAO 2020 poster by Stephen Russel et al. Recognized with best poster award. Sepofarsen had a manageable safety profile and showed improvement in mean visual acuity, and full-field stimulus testing.
AAO 2020 poster by Allen Ho et al. Recognized with best poster award. Data show that FST seems a more sensitive method in patients with severely impaired vision.
He is one of the founders of ProQR, but even long before that Gerard Platenburg was involved in the development of RNA therapies. Even so, after decades of working on them he still gets enthusiastic when talking about RNA.
There are currently around 160 people working at ProQR, but that wasn’t always the case. When Hee Lam Chan joined in 2013, she was only employee number six. As a result, she has seen the company grow and develop.
Bart Klein was at the forefront of ProQR's Axiomer® RNA editing technology development. This platform technology makes it possible to use the cells own machinery to reverse mutations that cause a genetic disease. Read the interview.