Turvey lab
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Dr. Stuart Turvey and the Turvey lab are commited to improving child health through research. Our research transforms lives. There is urgency to what we do!
B.C. teen becomes first in the world cured of rare disease using gene editing 18-year-old Ty Sperle from UBC Okanagan was Participant 1 in the trial. He had chronic granulomatous disease since age 5 and is now completely cured after the gene edit fixed his immune cells.
Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment. #bc #health #geneediting cjme.com/2026/02/26/b-c…
Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment. cheknews.ca/b-c-man-cured-…
Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/02/26/b-c…
This is a real-life medical milestone out of B.C. 🧬 Ty Sperle, a UBC Okanagan student from Kelowna, has reportedly been cured of chronic granulomatous disease through a clinical trial using prime editing, becoming the first known patient to be cured with this approach.
Honored to see our work published in NEJM, reporting the first two patients treated with prime editing for NCF1-related CGD — with the first procedure performed at our institution @ChuSteJustine. My deepest gratitude to the patient and family, to our incredible clinical research team @ka_leveille, and to the brilliant @PrimeMedicine team whose ingenuity made this possible. Even as the trial could not continue and the future remains uncertain, this represents an important scientific step. @davidliu @CR_CHUSJ @med_umontreal
Brief Report: Prime Editing for p47ᵖʰᵒˣ-Deficient Chronic Granulomatous Disease nej.md/49OCYqx #ASH25 | @ASH_hematology
