At an awareness seminar on World Alzheimer's Day in Bangalore, India, in 2024, a participant walks past. On Wednesday, University College London medical researchers announced what they say is the world's first successful treatment for Huntington's disease, which causes dementia. File Photo by Jagadeesh Nv/EPA
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Researchers at University College London reported success in treating Huntington's disease with gene therapy, which is the world's first to prove successful.
The gene therapy slowed the disease's progress by 75% in patients over three years during the U.K. trial, according to The Guardian.
"We now have a treatment for one of the world's more terrible diseases," said Sarah Tabrizi, the director of the Huntington's Disease Center at University College London.
"This is absolutely huge," Tabrizi added. "I'm really overjoyed."
