The Difference That Makes a Difference: Dr. Leslie Gordon at TEDxCharlottesville 2013

Leslie B. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. is the co-founder and Medical Director of The Progeria Research Foundation. She is also the mother of a child with Progeria. Dr. Gordon is Principal Investigator overseeing the PRF Diagnostics Testing Program, Cell & Tissue Bank and Medical & Research Database.



Gordon is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, RI, and co-Chair for the Progeria Clinical Drug Trial at Children's Hospital Boston. She assembled the PRF Genetics Consortium and was among those members who discovered the gene defect in Progeria. She has been recognized for her extraordinary efforts in Progeria research by such prestigious institutions as the Gerontological Society of America, Harvard University, and The Genetic Alliance.

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