CDG: A Community of HOPE
This weeks edition features...
Maurizio Scarpa is the coordinator of the European Reference Network for Hereditary Metabolic Diseases (MetabERN) which has a working group dedicated to CDG. Here, he explains what is MetabERN and highlights the state of the CDG landscape at the European level. As for the future, he is optimistic about therapy discovery because there is so much commitment from the CDG community, both professionals and patient associations! He finishes by saying we should continue to attract the interest of young investigators so we can keep up with the good work!
He gives us HOPE!💚
#CDGCommunity #CDGDiversity #RareNotAlone
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Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) are caused by defects in the cellular machinery responsible for making and altering sugars and attaching them to proteins and lipids. There are over 140 different CDG types.