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Media Spotlight: WRAL highlights Duke’s Pompe research
posted January 20th, 2010
Based on the film “Extraordinary Measures,” which opens this next week, this video highlights Duke research that led to the development of a drug to treat Pompe disease – the disease at the center of the movie.
“It’s like providing insulin to a patient with diabetes,” said Priya Kishnani, M.D., a pediatric geneticist at Duke who is the world’s leading expert on Pompe. “For someone with Pompe disease, it’s providing that missing enzyme.”