Prof. Annemieke Aartsma-Rus Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

A. Aartsma-Rus obtained her Master’s Degree in Biomedical Sciences at Leiden University in 2000, then obtained her PhD at Leiden University Medical Center in 2005. Her PhD research focused on Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the development of exon skipping therapy. She pursued this therapy further moving from in vitro proof-of-concept... read moreto animal studies and clinical trials. She currently is a Professor at the Leiden University Medical Center focusing her work on optimizing exon skipping therapy and testing other therapeutic approaches in model systems.