Dr Julia Reichelt
Dr Julia Reichelt PhD qualified as a Molecular Biologist at Marburg University in Germany. She studied the biology of skin keratins at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne in Germany. At Newcastle University in the UK she started using genome editing technologies to develop gene therapies for keratinopathic disorders including EI. At EB House in Salzburg in Austria she was involved in the life-saving gene therapy in a German boy with junctional EB who had 80% of his skin replaced with his own gene-corrected keratinocytes. She continued to work on CRISPR-mediated gene therapy development in Innsbruck in Austria before recently moving to the Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar where her research is focused on the translation of personalised gene therapy approaches into the clinic.
Professor Matthias Schmuth
Professor Matthias Schmuth MD qualified as a medical doctor from the University of Vienna in Austria. He researched various types of ichthyosis and the skin barrier in San Francisco, USA. He also serves on the Medical Advisory Board for the Foundation for Ichthyosis & Related Skin Types (FIRST) in the US. He currently works as a physician scientist in Innsbruck in Austria at a clinic which is a member of the European Reference Network (ERN)-Skin.
To see a presentation about EI from Dr Julia Reichelt and Professor Matthias Schmuth please click on the video below
Researcher biographies and presentation taken with permission from the UK Ichthyosis Support Group