Looking Ahead

Study co-author Leslie Gordon, a Brown University physician whose son died from progeria and who co-founded the Progeria Research Foundation, doesn’t want to wait for “the next iteration” before developing plans and raising money to test the treatment in children. Her foundation is talking to companies, including Beam Therapeutics, which Liu co-founded, in hopes of launching a clinical trial. “We will find a way to get this done for these kids,” Gordon says.