Prof. Katherine High University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, USA

Dr. Katherine High is the William H. Bennett Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Dr. High’s research interests focus on the use of novel genetic therapies to treat genetic disease. She has pioneered safe and... read moreeffective clinical translation of genetic therapies for inherited disorders. These clinical trials have led to long-term correction of disease in hemophilia B and in Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a hereditary cause of blindness.