Kate Williams

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Professor of Public Engagement with History
Associate Professor in Translational Medicine
- Funding from medical charities for muscular dystrophy and diabetes research
- Engineering viruses to deliver large transgenes to augment muscle mass and function
- Developing antisense exon skipping technologies to augment muscle mass and function
- Developing peptide conjugates to increase gene medicine delivery or tissue tropism
- Assessing impact of muscle loss associated with metabolic diseases
- Developing gene medicines for metabolic diseases
Member of the
Impact, Enterprise and Outreach
- Scottish parliamentary debate
- UK parliamentary task force member for fast tracking gene medicines for rare diseases
- European Medicine Agency 'clinical endpoints of trials' framework document
- Interviews with BBC Radio 5 Live and the Naked scientist
Esteem Factors
- Scientific editorial board for the journal 'Human Gene Therapy Methods'.
- Expert grant reviewer for 'Health Research Board, Ireland', 'Exerc-IND 2012', 'Association Française contre les Myopathies', 'Telethon of Italy', 'Myotubular Trust' and ad-hoc exert grant reviewer for other national and international funding agencies.
- Chair of Scientific Advisory Board for medical charity 'Joining Jack'
- Local organiser of the 2013 British Society of Gene Therapy meeting
- International Duchenne Exon Skipping Consortium Member
International Collaborators
- Prof. Greg Verdine, Harvard, US
- Dr. Rob Kotin, NIH Bethesda, US
- Dr. Luis Garcia, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France
National Collaborators
- Dr. Mark Cleasby, Royal Veterinary School, London
- Prof. Raj Mookerjee, University College, London
- Dr. Gautum Mehta, University College, London
- Prof. Dominic Wells, Royal Veterinary School, London