Molecular Treatment of Specific Genetic Cause of AVM; AVM; Guillaume Canaud , MD

SUMMARY: Professor Canaud and his interdisciplinary team of medical scientists describes the research they have done treating patients with a specific genetic mutation leading to the development of unique AVMs. Driven by patients presenting with untreatable medical problems involving AVMs of the face, they used a specific agent, Sotorasib, which binds to the KRAS G12C protein made for the gene of the same name to stop the growth of the AVM driven by this protein to stop its change of function from normal. if unchecked this abnormal protein will influence many pathways to produce uncontrolled cell growth of blood vessels and other targets leading to the treatment resistant AVM. This work and discovery hopefully will provide a window the the molecular treatment of a vascular disease seen in children, now specifically limited to this unique genetic mutation. Detection of this disease has been helped using liquid biopsies. 40 minutes   (JIA).

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