Christian Jorgensen, director of the IHU in Montpellier, launched an appeal to Céline Dion. He judges that with financial assistance from the singer, his teams would be able to develop a treatment for the illness she suffers from, stiff person syndrome.
Near France Bleu HéraultChristian Jorgensen, the director of the Immun4cure university hospital institute in Montpellier, launched this Wednesday, June 26, an appeal to Céline Dion, in order to find a treatment for stiff person syndrome, from which the singer suffers, an auto disease -immune without cure and which causes acute pain, difficulty moving and spasms.
“It’s not at all a joke, if someone today comes with 10 million euros and says make me a biomedicine, I’ll do it. In two years it will be ready”declares Christian Jorgensen to our colleagues at France Blue. An amount which does not represent “not much” for Celine Dion, but which could change the lives of several people.
“A market that interests no one”
The professor says he came into contact with the singer’s teams, but this “did not follow up”. “These are not necessarily people to whom we can propose a scientific development plan, so I don’t think that Céline Dion herself had a concrete proposal but perhaps with the press, it can happen as far as ‘to her”.
Stiff person syndrome is an extremely rare disease that affects around fifty people. “at most” in France, according to Christian Jorgensen. A potential treatment is therefore “a market that interests no one”. It is for this reason that the director of the IHU turns to Céline Dion.
