A man with muscular dystrophy who was first in line to receive an experimental
CRISPR therapy tailor made to treat the cause of his rare form of the disease
has died.
The first recipient of the Sharon Begley-STAT Science Reporting Fellowship is Isabella Cueto, a Cuban American journalist who has worked as a reporter in Florida, South Carolina, and California.
While it remains fairly unusual for hospital chiefs across the country to work as directors for publicly traded companies, the practice is now routine in Boston.
Research on Covid-19 dominates the bracket for this year’s #STATMadness, our annual competition in which readers choose the most important biomedical advance or discovery to emerge from U.S. labs in the past year.