Based on the Japanese film, Midnight Sun centers on Katie, a 17 - year - old sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during
the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly.
Researchers developed a new type of cell transplantation to treat mice mimicking a
rare lung
disease that one
day could be used to treat this and other human lung
diseases caused
by dysfunctional immune cells.
Summary: A two
day meeting to demonstrate to the wider scientific community where the IMPC is trying to go and how to include clinical scientists, geneticists and the
rare disease research community, followed
by two simultaneous one
day workshops (phenotyping and EUCOMMTOOLS) to plan for Phase II phenotyping and discuss production technology development Attended
by: IMPC members, corporate sponsors, external delegates, EUCOMMTOOLS members and IKMC members Hosted / funded
by: Infrafrontier, EUCOMMTOOLS, CNR Monterotondo