UCL’s Professor Francesco Muntoni has received the 2026 Novo Nordisk Prize for his pioneering research offering hope to children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The prize, worth nearly £600,000 (5 million Danish kroner), has been awarded to Professor Muntoni (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) for his work on RNA-based therapies that allow cells to bypass faulty genes, which has demonstrated that even severe inherited diseases can be