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?5 Things You Need to Know from Our Recent Gene Therapy Webinar

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At the end of May, we hosted a webinar titled “ Changing Times, Changing Therapies: Keeping Up with Advancements in Cell and Gene Therapies ” to provide a quick update on the latest advancements and ongoing in development of these advanced therapeutics. Around 40% of clinical holds are for gene therapy programs.

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Vyjuvek Gets FDA Nod as First Topical Gene Therapy for Rare Skin Disease

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Krystal Biotech’s Vyjuvek has been awarded US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to make it the first topical gene therapy for the treatment of wounds in patients with the rare, often debilitating skin disease dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). As a topical treatment, it is also the first readily redosable gene therapy.

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Clinical Research Nurse Finds Opportunities via LinkedIn: We Discuss Gene Therapy, Career Growth!

Clinical Trial Gurus

Clinical research nurses have the background and the experience to virtually demand a great amount of interest from prospective employers. In this video I interview Michele Blue, a research nurse from an academic medical center (AMC). We discuss her career, job prospects, and a lot of other topics related to clinical research.

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STAT+: A young boy’s nightmare diagnosis, and the $3 million one-time treatment that will likely save his life

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When the long-awaited moment arrived, a nurse helped Adam Hess loosen a tiny plastic clamp on an intravenous line leading to the chest of his son, who lay asleep in a bed at Boston Children’s Hospital. They had been modified in a lab by adding a functional gene to compensate for a defective one.

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Novartis hails digital strategy as profits hold up during pandemic

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In China, Novartis has been working with the internet multinational Tencent on an AI-enabled “digital nurse” to manage heart disease. Sales of spinal muscular atrophy gene therapy Zolgensma have been hit because it requires a course of drugs to suppress the immune system before prescription.

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The Benefits of Working for a Rapidly Growing Global Clinical Research Organization (CRO) like Medpace

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Cellular and gene therapy. Radiation therapy. Medpace has various opportunities for nurses and other healthcare professionals. Hematology and oncology. Infectious diseases and vaccines. NASH and liver disease. Neurology and psychiatry. Nephrology. Ophthalmology. Pediatrics. Rare diseases.

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Could virtual reality become an essential tool for healthcare education?

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According to the World Health Organization, the world will need more than 40 million new doctors, nurses, frontline healthcare workers, and various other healthcare professionals by 2030. Spark Therapeutics developed a VR product , alongside a partner, to teach haemophilia patients about gene therapy. The training challenge.