Gene Therapy Removed from Drug Pipeline

JENNYC

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I just read from Frank that the CF Foundation has removed the Gene Therapy from the Drug Pipeline. I looked at it 2 weeks ago before Abby's appt and it was still there. Very Sad news!! :'(
 
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MaddiesFamily

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Hi Jenny,
After a rocky couples of years on the funding front, the UK Gene Therapy Consortium has just started a Phase 2 clinical trial of a gene therapy using a lipid vector. Work also continues to develop a "wave 2" product using a lenti-viral vector. The phase 2 trial for the "wave 1" product should complete in 2014. You can find more information about the phase 2 trial here: http://www.cfgenetherapy.org.uk/clinical/multidose.html
 
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MaddiesFamily

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Hi Jenny,
The UK Gene Therapy Consortium is just starting a Phase 2 gene therapy trial using a liposome vector. The trial will complete in 2014. You can read more about it here.
 

albino15

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Well it's about time. Haven't seen any progress on that front in years. I've thought for a while that the pipeline needed some updating. I mean according to the CFF, the new form of Tobi (TIP) is only approved in Canada and Chile.
 

GenH

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Someone posted about this in the praying for success with VX809/770 facebook group and I mentioned that genetic therapy research is still occuring elsewhere in the world, in europe and in australia, possibly elsewhere. I've been following the UK group that maddiesfamily mentioned, I think that is one of the largest groups and also one of the first to do large human trials.
 
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MaddiesFamily

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To see Professor Eric Alton of the UK Gene Therapy Consortium speaking only last month about progress on the Gene Therapy front, please click

[video=youtube;WQ45TFATYxA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WQ45TFATYxA[/video]
 
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