Books By Matthew Hirsch, Toni Cathomen, Matthew H. Porteus - Author

Matthew Hirsch, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He also holds appointments in Microbiology and Immunology and in Genetics and MolecularBiology, as well as in the Gene Therapy Center at UNC. Dr. Hirsch received his PhD from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV; his studies focused on E.coli and Salmonella genetics. He completed his post-doctoral research at UNC studying both episomal and chromosomal genetic engineering using adeno-associated virus (AAV). Dr. Hirsch continues these basic AAV studies and has several reagents under preclinical evaluation for the treatment of blindness and muscular dystrophies.

Toni Cathomen, PhD is Professor and Director of the Institute for Cell and Gene Therapy at the University Medical Center Freiburg, in Freiburg, Germany. The Institute provides the Medical Center with blood and cell products as well as all transfusion and transplan