Newly appointed Professor Yonglun Luo from Aarhus University hopes to help patients with degenerative diseases such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by unlocking a cure with his research.

The cure for degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and diabetes may be found within our cells. Newly appointed professor in Gene and Stem Cell Technology at the Department of Biomedicine, Yonglun Luo, hopes his research may unlock those answers.

The development of human degenerative diseases is a complex process involving changes at genetic, molecular, and cellular levels. Yonglun Luo works to map the gene expression and cell function changes in human diseases at single cell and spatial levels, in addition to developing gene and stem cell therapies for neuromuscular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and cardiometabolic diseases. His area of research also covers the use of organs from genetically modified pigs to repair degenerated organs in patients.

Using CRISPR gene editing tools and engineered stem cells, Yonglun Luo hopes to pave the way towards a more efficient and specific modification of our genes – and maybe a cure for both inherited and more common diseased conditions.

Yonglun Luo took up his new professorship, which is also supported by Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus (SDCA) at Aarhus University Hospital, on 1 October 2022.

Contact: 

Professor Yonglun Luo
Department of Biomedicine
E-mail: alun@biomed.au.dk
Mobile: +4522411944