"For treatment we will have in the future"

http://www.telethon.it/en - Pier Lorenzo Puri is a researcher at the Telethon Dulbecco Institute and works at the Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome. After a number of years as a researcher in the United States, he returned to Italy thanks to Telethon offering him a chance to create his own independent research laboratory in Italy in 2001.Having graduated as a medical doctor, Pier Lorenzo studies Duchenne muscular dystrophy and in particular the stage of the disease during which the patient's muscles try and mend themselves using particular stem cells. By intervening pharmacologically on this mechanism, Puri and his group aim to prolong for as long as possible this phase in which patients are still able to move autonomously and are above all more receptive to eventual treatment currently being studied.

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