IRT AND eCLINICAL TECHNOLOGY CONSIDERATIONS FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPY A Case Snapshot for Personalized Medicine Cell and gene therapy is a growing experimental technique that uses cells, proteins or genes from a patient or donor to treat or prevent disease. Cells are harvested and sent to a lab, which grows and develops these molecules into a personalized treatment for individual patients. A kit containing the altered cells – often in a bottle – is then returned to the drug depot, and sent to the site to be dispensed to the patient. The hope is that eventually physicians will be able to treat a range of diseases including hereditary, heart and renal diseases; AIDS; and cancer, by infusing a gene into a patient’s cells, as an alternative to medication based on small molecules,

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