Question: What do the medicines you create cure?

Elizabeth Ratcliffe answered on 11 Mar 2014:

Hi dannyboy, the medicines I work with are called Regenerative Medicines and the aim to restore and repair the body. I have worked on medicines that target heart disease, stroke, blindness and major injury (blood). Some of my new work is in the area of gene therapy, these therapies use genes to repair or replace faulty genes in our bodies, there are gene therapies targeting Parkinson’s disease, blindness, cancer and rare genetic diseases that involve the immune system