London Skin Club
Queen Mary and the Lifelong Health MDT will be hosting the twelfth London Skin Club meeting
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Date: Wednesday, 6 December, 2.00pm-6.00pm
Venue: Clark Kennedy Lecture Theatre
This year the event has a rare skin disease theme. The event is free to attend and will include talks from researchers from Queen Mary, Kings College London, Imperial College London, and University College London.
Programme
Welcome and introduction (2:00-2:10)
Keynote Speaker
Prof Edel O’Toole (2:10-3:10)
Talk title: Harlequin ichthyosis: from bedside to bench and back again?
Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London
Coffee Break (3:10-3:30)
Invited Speakers
- Dr Joanna Jackow (3:30-3:50)
Talk title: New avenue to treat rare skin diseases: precision therapeutic gene correction using gene editing
Dermatology, Kings College London (Jackow Lab) - Dr Dale Bryant (3:50-4:10)
Talk title: RNA therapy for congenital melanocytic naevi
Mosaicism and Precision Medicine Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute/UCL (Kinsler Lab) - Dr Oliver Teenan (4:10-4:30)
Talk title: miRNA biomarkers for scleroderma diagnosis
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London (Ladame Lab) - Dr Eleri Jones (4:30-4:50)
Talk title: Repairing the epidermal skin barrier in Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa Centre for Cell Biology and Cutaneous Research, Queen Mary University of London (Caley Lab)
Nibbles and Wine afterwards