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Breaking Barriers – the First Patient in the World Receives Moderna mRNA Trial Infusion for Glycogen Storage Disease at UConn Health
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Breaking Barriers – the First Patient in the World Receives Moderna mRNA Trial Infusion for Glycogen Storage Disease at UConn Health

June 8, 2022 | Jennifer Walker – UConn Health Loveah Hernandez, a brave 20-year-old from Texas, is contributing to science as the first person in the world to receive the Moderna mRNA infusion as part of the Ba1ance Trial for GSD-Ia at UConn Health. Love Joy, a nurse at UConn Health takes Loveah Hernandez’s blood pressure. (photo credit,...

First patient receives Moderna mRNA trial infusion for glycogen storage disease
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First patient receives Moderna mRNA trial infusion for glycogen storage disease

by Jennifer Walker, University of Connecticut Love Joy, a nurse at UConn Health takes Loveah Hernandez’s blood pressure. Credit: Shaylee King Prior to COVID-19 vaccines most people had never heard of messenger RNA (mRNA) used to create two of the COVID-19 vaccines on the market. However, mRNA was discovered in 1960 and since that time...