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Pierpaolo Ala

University College LondonORCID 0000-0001-9410-0085Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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Francesco Muntoni AiD· 2 shared A. W. Edith ChaniD· 1 shared Amaia Paredes‐RedondoiD· 1 shared Beatrice Lana· 1 shared Beiyuan FuiD· 1 shared Christin LuftiD· 1 shared David John RyaniD· 1 shared David L. SelwoodiD· 1 shared

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Molecular BiologybioRxivPreprintOct 20, 2026

PDGFRα-directed fibroblast-homing peptides for targeted delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics

Shuzhi Cheng, Will Weston, Pierpaolo Ala…·Haiyan Zhou

The paper identifies fibroblast-homing peptides targeting PDGFR for targeted delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics, showing enhanced efficacy in a collagen VI-related muscular dystrophy model.

DOI 10.64898/2026.10.19.759357

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Molecular BiologyEMBO ReportsPeer-reviewedSep 30, 2019

Targeted gene correction of FKRP by CRISPR/Cas9 restores functional glycosylation of α-dystroglycan in cortical neurons derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells

Jihee Kim, Beatrice Lana, Silvia Torelli…·Yung‐Yao Lin

This paper corrects FKRP mutations in iPSCs using CRISPR/Cas9, restoring functional glycosylation of α-dystroglycan in cortical neurons and validating the role of FKRP in dystroglycanopathies.

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