Dr Killian Hanlon, CEO & Chief Scientist Lir Therapeutics
Speaker: Dr. Giulia Massaro, University College London
Dr Giulia Massaro is a NHIR GOSH BRC Research Fellow in Translational AAV Technology at the UCL School of Pharmacy. After her MRes in Functional Genomics at the University of Trieste and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, she joined Prof. Ahad Rahim’s Lab at UCL to complete her PhD in Gene Therapy working on rare paediatric diseases of infants. Since 2013 she has been involved in many translational gene therapy projects, collaborating with both academia and industry, focusing on rare neurological disorders with unmet medical need. In 2020 Dr Massaro opened the NeuroGTx Viral Synthesis Facility, a state-of-the-art vector production laboratory for research-grade viral vectors.