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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2025

Current trends in gene therapy to treat inherited disorders of the brain.

Zaneta Matuszek, Brandon L Brown, Carolyn M Yrigollen, Megan S Keiser, Beverly L Davidson

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Zaneta MatuszekMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Brandon L BrownRaymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ENDD), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Carolyn M YrigollenRaymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Megan S KeiserDepartment of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Beverly L DavidsonRaymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ENDD), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: davidsonbl@chop.edu.

Funding

Training Program in Neurodevelopmental DisabilitiesT32NS007413 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI AMELIA J EISCH, ERIC D MARSH · 1998 to 2026
$8.9M
RNAi Therapy for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1UH3NS094355 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI DAVIDSON, BEVERLY L. · 2017 to 2023
$6.4M
Therapeutic APOE2 overexpression for early Alzheimer's diseaseU01NS111671 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI DAVIDSON, BEVERLY L. · 2019 to 2022
$6.3M
Mitochondrial dysfunction in Fragile X: Mechanisms and treatmentsR01NS129903 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI THOMAS A JONGENS · 2023 to 2026
$2.1M
Characterizing and testing the efficacy of AAV-mediated gene therapy in a sheep model of CLN1 disease.R01NS124655 · NINDS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI COOPER, JONATHAN D · 2022 to 2025
$1.9M
RNAi Therapy for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1UH2NS094355 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI DAVIDSON, BEVERLY L. · 2016 to 2016
$1.1M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS124655NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS129903NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007413NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS111671NINDS NIH HHS UH2 NS094355NINDS NIH HHS UH3 NS094355
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene therapy development, re-engineering, and application to patients hold promise to revolutionize medicine, including therapies for disorders of the brain. Advances in delivery modalities, expression regulation, and improving safety profiles are of critical importance. Additionally, each inherited disorder has its own unique characteristics as to regions and cell types impacted and the temporal dynamics of that impact that are essential for the design of therapeutic design strategies. Here, we review the current state of the art in gene therapies for inherited brain disorders, summarizing key considerations for vector delivery, gene addition, gene silencing, gene editing, and epigenetic editing. We provide examples from animal models, human cell lines, and, where possible, clinical trials. This review also highlights the various tools available to researchers for basic research questions and discusses our views on the current limitations in the field.

Indexed as

Brain DiseasesGenetic TherapyAnimalsBrainClinical Trials as TopicDisease Models, AnimalGene EditingGenetic VectorsGene Transfer TechniquesHumansAAVCRISPRgene therapygenome editingmiRNAneurological treatmentprime editing

Identifiers

PMID40181540
PMCPMC12126828

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