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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Rikki Loftus

‘Every parent’s worst nightmare’: Mum diagnoses daughter with rare incurable condition

A scientist who diagnosed her own daughter with an incurable genetic disorder has set up a foundation to raise funds for research towards clinical trials and started a biotech company to develop a new treatment in a bid to save her life.

Dr Michelle Teng, a medical scientist and geneticist, founded the H-ABC Foundation after diagnosing her daughter, Sofia, 11, with a genetic disease that affects the nervous system, in 2016.

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