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Paola Leone, Ph.D., is perhaps the world's leading researcher on Canavan disease. She has received the UNESCO Lifetime Achievement Award for her devotion to the search for a cure for Canavan disease.

Dr. Leone was born and raised in Cagliari, Sardinia and received her undergraduate and graduate training in Italy, followed by post-doctoral studies in Montreal and New Haven, CT. Her work on Canavan Disease started at Yale, where she collaborated with other early pioneers in Gene Therapy. She left New Haven in 1998 to co-direct the (now defunct) Cell & Gene Therapy Center at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.

She now directs the Cell & Gene Therapy Center at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, or UMDNJ. Current work involves the first gene therapy clinical trial for a neurological degenerative disorder.

See also Misplaced Pages article on Dr. Christopher Janson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Christopher_Janson

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