Hello.
and welcome to the conversation from the BBC World Service.
This is the programme which amplifies women's voices,
taking us around the world to hear the insights of women doing incredible things.
I'm Dashiani Navanayagam.
Today I'm speaking to two women who both work on leading research to treat some of the world's most devastating diseases.
Dr Anne Rosser is Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at Cardiff University and she recently worked on the discovery of a new gene therapy for patients with Huntingdon's disease,
an inherited condition which affects the brain and consequently people's mobility,
thinking and emotions.
And Parody Saccadia is the lead biologist for tuberculosis drug discovery at Calibur Skaggs at Scripps Research,
a non-profit focusing on drug discovery and treatments for diseases.
TB is still one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases and kills 1.2 million people a year.
But Parody's work has been instrumental in the discovery of a potential new treatment.
Anne and Parody, welcome to the conversation.
Hello, thanks.
Thank you.
I mentioned that you both have particular diseases that you're focused on treating.
So Anne, let's start with you.
Can you just tell us a bit more about Huntingdon's and how exactly it affects someone who has it?
It's an inherited condition, so it's inherited by what we call an autosomal dominant gene,