Podcast: Research is the key – Let’s Talk Business

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The Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds funds, guides, and stimulates scientific research into muscle diseases, because it knows that scientific research is the only key to making all muscle diseases treatable in the future. Listen to the New Business Radio podcast Let’s Talk Business #634.

Martine Hauwert spoke with Prof. Dr. Pim Pijnappel, Dr. Ellen Sterrenburg, and Dirk van Asseldonk.

The Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds, Erasmus MC, and LentiCure are entering into a special collaboration with one main goal: bringing an advanced and life-saving gene therapy for Pompe disease to the market at a socially responsible price. The development of this gene therapy for this serious muscle disease has already proven successful in the laboratory. Martine Hauwert discussed the collaboration with Prof. Dr. Pim Pijnappel, who has been working on the therapy for Pompe disease for many years; Dr. Ellen Sterrenburg, Managing Director of the Spierfonds; and Dirk van Asseldonk, Director of LentiCure.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Start-up for gene therapy for Pompe disease. With the collaboration between Erasmus MC and the start-up LentiCure, the Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds is taking a new step. The goal is to develop a gene therapy for Pompe disease.