Pharmacist, PhD student/Research Assistant @uclIoN, working on neurological gene therapy 🧬
Joined April 2021
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Hester Chu retweeted
15 May 2025
Congratulations @jantinaod for winning best abstract at @ASGCTherapy for “preclinical gene therapy for Dravet Syndrome”. Very proud 🧬🧬🧬🧬❤️❤️❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️@UCL_IfWH @lifearc1 @DravetUK @GOSHCharity @UCLTRO @drelliechilcott @AnnaKeeganUCL @OzgeCet15666351
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Hester Chu retweeted
7 Sep 2024
Exciting discovery: CSF flow isn't confined to the brain and spinal cord—it also extends to peripheral nerves! @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Groundbreaking research from @UFHealth @UF
#neurotwitter #neuroscience #AcademicChatter
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Hester Chu retweeted
18 Jun 2024
@ProfSimonWad giving a great talk on “Gene therapy for DAT” 🧬🧬🧬@_BSGCT annual conference @DrJo_Ng @ProfAhadRahim @UCLTRO @UCL_Business @The_MRC @UCL_IfWH
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Hester Chu retweeted
9 May 2024
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Thank you @ASGCTherapy for inviting me to your brilliant meeting. I hope my talk was up to scratch @UCL_IfWH @ProfAhadRahim @DrGiuliaMassaro @Dr_RKarda @RJYanezMunoz @DrJo_Ng
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20 Mar 2024
Great talk by @DrJo_Ng at @AdTherapiesConf!! (And amazing DA pathway by @ProfSimonWad!) @RebecaGilG @effemerus @konstantina_tet @Dr_RickPrivo
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Hester Chu retweeted
15 Jan 2024
Congratulations @HesterChu @DrJo_Ng
Gene therapy for neurotransmitter‐related disorders - Chu - 2024 - Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Hester Chu retweeted
25 Sep 2023
🚨New paper alert! A KO model of #DravetSydrome shows significant pathology in the #spinalcord 👇
25 Sep 2023
Check out our new paper on pre-print bioRxiv, "Spinal cord pathology in a Dravet Syndrome mouse model"; biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @jantinaod @drelliechilcott @AnnaKeeganUCL @s_schorge @ProfSimonWad @DravetUK @curedravet @GOSHCharity @lifearc1 @UCL_IfWH
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Hester Chu retweeted
20 Sep 2023
@DrJo_Ng @SonjaSucic @HesterChu
19 Sep 2023
Why bother with finding genetic causes of cerebral palsy? In 1,841 individuals in published CP cohorts, 8% had a genetic diagnosis classified as actionable --> as prompting a change in clinical management based on knowledge related to the genetic etiology
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Hester Chu retweeted
1 Sep 2023
Just presented gene therapy for dopamine transporter deficiency syndrome @SSIEM2023 #ssiem #ssiem2023 #neurometabolism #societyforthestudyofinbornerrorsofmetabolism #inbornerrors #genetherapy
@DrJo_Ng @HesterChu @ProfAhadRahim @UCL_IfWH @UCL_Business @_BSGCT @lifearc1 @The_MRC
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Hester Chu retweeted
7 May 2023
Also in AAV land, 1st pres on an IgM cleaving enzyme to enable AAV re-dosing [210]. Work on IgG degraders previously received a lot attention; Asokan lab show the disc. of an IgM degrader & feasibility of combining the two for more robust amelioration of anti-AAV immunity (17/26)
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Hester Chu retweeted
19 Apr 2023
Preparing slides for #genetherapy at Swiss Society of Medical Genetics. I use Adobe Animate/Flash🤯. Could be worse (Powerpoint). Asked #chatgpt to write code to squiggle ellipses. Took way too long but it worked @SonjaSucic @DrJo_Ng @HesterChu @danielintheory @JIMD_Editors
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Hester Chu retweeted
3 Apr 2023
Genetic Therapy Accelerator Centre team at #256GraysInnRoad with Prof Muntoni @JenniferEMorgan @HesterChu @_Sophie_ost Sara Aguti Sylvia Torelli 🦠🧬🧠👇
Our new Genetic Therapy Accelerator Centre took a hardhat tour around the lab areas in construction on site at our world-class translational #neuroscience centre #256GraysInnRoad bit.ly/onsitegraysinnroad
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Hester Chu retweeted
6 Mar 2023
@DrJo_Ng @HesterChu
@Dr_RickPrivo @SonjaSucic
Dopamine Transporter Deficiency Syndrome
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dtdsfoundation.org/
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Hester Chu retweeted
30 Jan 2023
We have the amazing @DrJo_Ng for our next @_BSGCT PPE series (15th Feb 6.30pm) discussing Movement disorders! Please register below👇🏽bsgct.org/public-and-patient…
@UCL_IfWH @ESGCT @lifearc1 @GOSHCharity @HesterChu @SimonWad @drelliechilcott @jantinaod
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Hester Chu retweeted
26 Jan 2023
Yay! Orphan Drug Designation 🧬
@DrJo_Ng @Dr_RickPrivo @ProfAhadRahim @Dr_RKarda @drelliechilcott @SonjaSucic @jantinaod @HesterChu @UCLTRO
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Hester Chu retweeted
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Hester Chu retweeted
24 Dec 2022
Good luck to all the PhD students this week, where all their family try to understand what they do and ask when they will be done.
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Hester Chu retweeted
21 Oct 2022
Great opportunity to do a PhD on "Gene therapy for Alkaptonuria" with @LivuniLCaMS @UCL_IfWH Supervisors: George Bou-Gharios, Jim Gallagher, @SimonWad @Dr_RKarda @_BSGCT @ESGCT @UCLTRO @AKUSociety
findaphd.com/phds/project/ge…
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Hester Chu retweeted
15 Oct 2022
Fantastic dopamine transporter gene therapy by @DrJo_Ng @SimonWad Prof Manju Kurian @ProfAhadRahim 🧬 @_BSGCT @ESGCT @UCL_IfWH @HesterChu #ESGCT2022 #Edinburgh
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Hester Chu retweeted
12 Oct 2022
#ESGCT2022 Come say hi at Poster 37 if you’re interested in the story of the evaluation of novel synthetic #promoters for #CNS #genetherapy with therapeutic validation in a mouse model of #DTDS 🧬 @DrJo_Ng @SimonWad @MahaTijani @UCL_IfWH @ask_bio @ESGCT @_BSGCT #Edinburgh
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