Dr Karen Buckland: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- from the Cell and Gene Therapy Service at GOSH and UCL senior research fellow
- Quoted on
- Rare diseases
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“We use the machinery from the virus to insert a working copy of the faulty gene into each of the stem cells. When those go back to Oliver, they should repopulate his bone marrow and start to produce new white blood cells and each of these will hopefully start to produce the missing protein [enzyme] in his body.”
Where Dr Karen Buckland has been quoted
- Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapybbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
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