About the Center: The Powell Gene Therapy Center (PGTC) at the University of Florida has been instrumental in the development of newer, safer agents for the delivery of therapeutic genes to patients with genetic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis (CF) and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (AAT-D). New programs will extend the use of the harmless virus, called…
About the Center: The Mathews Center for Cellular Therapy (MCCT) at downtown Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital offers researchers, clinicians and biotech companies regulatory compliant labs and services to manufacture minimally manipulated and complex biotechnology products. Achievements: Northwestern’s adult stem cell, solid organ transplant programs, and allergy and immunology divisions The Robert and Ann Lurie Children’s…
About: The department of Pharmaceutical Gene Modulation (PGM) is focused on the development of drugs for the therapeutic manipulation of gene activity. Genetic medicines and delivery forms are being developed for the specific and efficient treatment of different diseases. Currently, the research is focused on cancer and inflammatory diseases. Achievements: Patients with Parkinson’s disease are…
About: IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele is one of the leading research institutes in Italy as per volume and quality of scientific output. Since 2001, San Raffaele has been recognized by the Italian Ministry of Health as a research hospital (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, IRCCS) with the speciality of Molecular Medicine. This…
About: In 2016, our name changed to the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. The inclusion of ‘Great Ormond Street’, is to reflect our close and strong partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital, whilst continuing to be faithful to our mission to improve all of child health. In everything we do, we try…
About the Center: Nationwide Children’s Hospital is a primary pediatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, with more than 1,316 medical staff members and over 11,200 total employees. In recent years, the hospital has been ranked as one of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals by US News & World Report. It is also the pediatric teaching hospital for The Ohio State University College of Medicine.…
About the Center: Gene Therapy holds the promise to treat rare genetic disorders with precision medicine alleviating the suffering of those that are hit by misfortune by a personalized medicine approach. The application of Gene Therapy is also spreading beyond correcting individual gene mutations. Treatments are being developed for common age related diseases such as…
About the cell: The Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative was founded with the objective of promoting the use of gene therapy in both research and therapeutic applications and to conduct research developing new gene delivery vector technologies. Achievements: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/awards-recognition-may-2018 Address: 4 Blackfan Circle, HIM-407 Boston, MA 02115-5727 Phone: (617) 432-6465 Web Site: http://harvard.eagle-i.net
About the center: The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is an international leader in medical and scientific training, biomedical research, and patient care. It is the medical school for the Mount Sinai Health System, which includes seven hospital campuses, and has more than 5,000 faculty and nearly 2,000 students, residents and fellows. Our…
About the Center: The Cell & Gene Therapy Center (“CGTC”) was founded in 2001 at Cooper Hospital and the former UMDNJ-School of Medicine, as a combined clinical and basic research facility. The focus of our work is on neurological diseases that can be treated using the latest gene transfer technologies and cell transplantation methods. CGTC is…