UCD researchers developing ‘life changing’ treatment for painful skin condition

Claudia Scanlon with the research team at the Charles Institute of Technology who using pioneering technology to develop a new therapy which could potentially transform the lives of people with the painful skin disease, EB. Picture: Marc O’Sullivan/PA

University College Dublin (UCD) researchers are developing a new therapy which could potentially transform the lives of people with the painful skin disease, EB.

Epidermolysis bullosa, also known as “butterfly skin”, is a severe genetic condition which causes blistering of the skin, affecting one in 18,000 people in Ireland and 500,000 worldwide.