Pharmaceutical

Gene Therapy: The “Big Value” Market! Gene therapy has been under scientific research for over 2 decades, but viable therapies have yet to gain commercial acceptance due to safety and delivery-related issues. However, Pfizer’s move and some other recent developments in the industry suggest that the therapy may be coming off age. With the superlatively well-funded biotech Moderna Therapeutics raising another $450 million in venture cash, for its mRNA based proprietary approach to treat previously undruggable targets in a wide range of disease areas (with 45 preclinical programs in its pipeline), it has become clear that the Gene therapy market is going to be of great ...