#FlagshipFounded Mirai Bio President & COO Jens H. Vogel, Ph.D. describes current and future innovations that aim to realize the full potential of cell and gene therapies for the benefit of patients globally in this Cell & Gene Therapy Insights article: https://lnkd.in/eWxQRu-8
President & COO, Mirai Bio; Advisory Board Member, former Global Head of Biotech @ Bayer, former President & CEO, Boehringer Ingelheim Fremont Inc
Leveraging living human cells to fight disease has already proven to be incredibly powerful in hematological oncology and holds huge promise, e.g. in devastating autoimmune diseases. However, autologous cell therapies are difficult to make, and 7 years after the first approvals, only about 35,000 patients have been treated with all approved products combined. We need truly breakthrough innovations to bring such therapies to all patients in need. What if.. we build targeted platforms to better engineer cells directly in vivo - skipping ex vivo cell manufacturing alltogether?! Read my short viewpoint article summarizing my thoughts. https://lnkd.in/gnZGpzvB