Steven Gray, Ph.D. Molecular Biology, UNC School of Medicine, Gray Lab, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Gray is a leading expert in gene therapy for brain related diseases. His research focuses on developing virus systems that can be implanted with the corrected genes of various genetic disorders and introduced to the nervous system to repair mutated genes. Gray has also begun preclinical animal model studies using these virus systems to treat neurological diseases, and is currently involved in the first human trial with AveXis Biotech to cure the MECP2 mutation (RETT’s Syndrome).
