Science|Business
Policy Analysis: Investment, Policy
Published: 04 April 2007
It’s gene therapy, stupid

nuala moran, Senior editor, ScienceBusiness

It is time to drop euphemisms like DNA medicines and gene-based medicines. Gene therapy, says Nuala Moran, has made it through to the commercial mainstream.

Science|Business senior editor Nuala Moran: it is what it is.

It is time to drop euphemisms like DNA medicines and gene-based medicines: gene therapy has made it through to the commercial mainstream.

More than 17 years after the first (supposedly) successful treatment was publicised, a big-ticket, big-pharma deal was signed for a gene therapy product last week, when Sanofi-Aventis agreed a €518 million licence for Oxford BioMedica plc’s TroVax,...

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Related subjects: Drug development, Gene therapy

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