Manufacturers Eye Challenges Of Broadening Cell And Gene Therapy Access

Potential Expansion From Academia To Community

With more advanced therapies gaining approval, companies at ARM’s Cell and Gene Meeting on the Mesa considered hurdles to making their products more broadly available and developing them for larger indications.

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Cell and gene therapy makers are looking beyond rare disease indications • Source: Shutterstock

With a growing number of complex cell and gene therapies approved globally, mostly for rare disease populations, manufacturers are looking at how to make these products more accessible by delivering available treatments through a greater number of health care centers and by developing new treatments for larger patient populations.

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