WWOX

First-of-its-kind experimental gene therapy administered at Schneider Children's Center to a baby with WOREE syndrome, a rare disease caused by a defect in the WWOX gene. Credit: Hebrew University / Schneider Children's Center.

For the first time: Experimental WWOX gene therapy injected into the brain of a baby with severe genetic epilepsy

Conceptual illustration of an AAV9 vector that delivers the WWOX gene to nerve cells in the brain as part of experimental gene therapy for WOREE syndrome.