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Warren Lammert oversees Granite Point Capital, a Boston-based company that provides investment consultancy and management services, drawing on a three-decade career in the financial business. Warren B Lammert concurrently serves as chairman of Tevard Biosciences, a Boston-based company that develops gene therapies for Dravet syndrome and other rare genetic conditions.

A rare genetic disorder that is inherently autosomal recessive (meaning the defective gene must be inherited from both parents for the disease to occur), Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) is characterized by retinal dysfunction in newborns. In most cases, the dysfunction affects vision severely right from birth and continues thereafter, worsening at a slow pace. LCA does not cause a visible abnormality in a child's eye; the eyes look normal. However, children with LCA typically experience nystagmus (involuntary jerky eye movement) and high sensitivity to light. Infants and children with LCA also press their eyes frequently, which can cause their eyes to look sunken due to disruption of the fatty layer that surrounds the eye.

There are two gold-standard tests for LCA: electroretinogram (ERG) and blood screening. ERG exams of LCA-positive children produce flat graphs. In healthy children, on the other hand, rhythmic patterns are always present in the graph. ERG can only detect if a child has LCA but does not specify what type of mutation is responsible for the disease. According to studies, thousands of mutations can occur in the gene that causes LCA. "Mutation" is the term for an abnormal alteration in a gene.

Norbert Lammert: “Western democracies must network” Germany | DW

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Former President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert has been Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for two years. Since then, the CDU politician has been committed to strengthening multilateralism. In the meantime, the Adenauer Foundation has 107 international offices worldwide, with another to be added at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa in early 2020, but offices…

Gregor Gysi hat Recht mit seiner Feststellung: Norbert Lammert war nie parteiisch und nie der verlängerte Arm irgendeiner Koalition. Und das allein ist schon bemerkenswert. Norbert Lammert war immer er selbst. Ein leidenschaftlicher Bundestagspräsident, der auf die Rechte des Parlaments pochte und die Abgeordneten ermutigte, sie wahrzunehmen. Und der selbst sein Amt – zumindest zumeist…