Dr. Berge Minassian explains gene therapy for children diagnosed with ECHS1 deficiency.
Berge A. Minassian, M.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, and Neuroscience at UT Southwestern. He is the Division Chief of Child Neurology and serves on the faculty of the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Minassian is a pediatric neurologist whose clinical specialties are epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, and neurogenetic conditions. Two of his primary interests have been Lafora disease, for which his lab discovered the genes, and Gene Therapy for neurological diseases of children.