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Led by Dr. Albert Quintana, the project proposes an innovative approach to improve the treatment of mitochondrial diseases.

On November 12th, coinciding with Science Week, we held our traditional open house event, with more than a dozen laboratories taking part.

A team led by Dr Albert Quintana has for the first time identified the mechanism behind a potentially fatal type of epilepsy, a symptom of mitochondrial diseases. The discovery, based on mice models, challenges the traditional idea that these disorders are caused by a generalised energy deficiency and instead reveals a precise disfunction in specific brain circuits.