The UJI, AFA Castelló and the Alzheimer Foundation promote a project to advance the development of gene therapy to combat Alzheimer's disease



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## The UJI, AFA Castelló and the Alzheimer Foundation promote a project to advance the development of gene therapy to combat Alzheimer's disease

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The UJI, with the collaboration of two association of relatives of Alzheimer's patients, will launch the Project "Azahar-Biotechnology against Alzheimer's disease". The Azahar-Biotechnology project against Alzheimer's will allow a study of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the UJI whose objective is to curb Alzheimer's disease by means of biotechnology techniques, whose incidence has become a public health priority.

This project opens a new line of research from a technical and conceptual point of view, since it proposes "the manufacture of non-harmful viral particles using biotechnological techniques to study neuronal death in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and restore damaged proteins to curb its course," according to Ana María Sánchez, lecturer of Anatomy from the Degree in Medicine and director of the UJI Neurobiotechnology Group. Sánchez emphasizes that this project seeks to slow neuronal death, by correcting defects in the internal functioning of cells. "In our research group we studied molecular aspects of Alzheimer's disease, a disease with a high incidence in the public health of the current population due to the increase in life expectancy. One of our lines of work is the use of viruses generated with biotechnology to know in depth the causes of neuronal death. Generating this type of knowledge is essential to arrive at the design of effective therapies against the disease. Biotechnology and gene therapy are fields of knowledge on the rise in the world of medicine, and we want it to reach diseases such as Alzheimer's," adds the researcher.

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