Oliver, three, is ‘wonderful’ after world-first gene therapy
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Three-year-old Oliver Chu stunned doctors and his parents after becoming the world’s first patient to benefit from a pioneering gene therapy to treat Hunter syndrome.
Hunter syndrome – or MPSII – is a rare inherited disorder that causes progressive damage to the body and brain.
The effects are sometimes described as a type of childhood dementia.
Ollie’s father Ricky Chu and trial co-leader Professor Simon Jones joined Sally and Jon on the BBC Breakfast sofa and described the “wonderful” progress Ollie has made in the nine months since gene therapy.
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