WABI interviews GSBSE student about muscular dystrophy research

WABI (Channel 5) spoke with Elisabeth Kilroy, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering at the University of Maine, about her muscular dystrophy research. Kilroy’s father and brother Keegan both have a type of the disease that doesn’t have a known cause, according to the report. Kilroy is examining zebrafish with muscular dystrophy to understand appropriate exercise, and hopes to create an animal model to replicate the type of disease her family carries, the report states. “I dream about the day that I get to say, ‘Hey Dad, Keegan, guess what I found? The gene. What are we going to name it?’” she said. “It’s not just for our family, but it’s for everyone else who is living with an unknown type of muscular dystrophy.”