NIH and the Gates Foundation have set themselves the goal of bringing curative gene therapies to clinical trials in the US and Africa in the next seven to 10 years.
Vaccine research is still quite ‘empirical’ and there is a long way until it is turned into a rational, predictable modality, suggests director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The industry focuses investments where there is the highest potential returns, but one panel at BIO-Europe Spring suggested multiple partners could boost outcomes in underserved therapeutic areas.