Gene therapies that program the body to make therapeutic antibodies, genetic surgery that replaces anatomical surgery and cell therapies designed to attack individual cancer patients’ tumors almost sound like science fiction, but in the eyes of Roche global partnering head James Sabry those types of innovations are the not-so-distant future of medicine.
The Future Of Medicine: Cell And Gene Therapies Take The Lead
Risk-taking required, partnerships essential to advance the field
BIO panel with Roche’s James Sabry, Spark’s Federico Mingozzi and Adaptive’s Harlan Robins imagines a world where cell and gene therapies are preferred over small molecules and antibodies.
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