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Newsletter January 2017

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News: Sarepta eyes a different approach to Duchenne: Gene Therapy
After winning approval in September for the first-ever Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug, Cambridge-based Sarepta Therapeutics is broadening its approach to treating the disease through a pair of gene therapy programs. Sarepta (Nasdaq: SRPT) announced Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with Ohio-based Nationwide Children’s Hospital to exclusively license a pre-clinical program that seeks to treat DMD through gene therapy. The company also said it had entered into a research agreement with the hospital to develop a second pre-clinical gene therapy program, with an exclusive option to license it later.
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News: New Gene Therapy Can Reverse Aging Process
The results of the latest research on gene therapy done by a team of scientists at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California looked like it's part of a science fiction movie. Better yet it's reminiscent of a Mel Gibson movie, Forever Young, where the main character has remained young over the decades. What the team has discovered was a new form of gene therapy which showed signs that it can reverse the aging process. They conducted the experiment on aging lab rats which showed signs of rejuvenation after undergoing the said treatment for six weeks. The most notable effects they noticed were improved cardiovascular health, straighter spines, and fast regeneration when hurt.
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Conferences
- 6 - 7 February 2017, 2nd Annual Genome Editing & Engineering Conference, San Diego, CA
- 6 - 8 March 2017, International Society for BioProcess Technology 7th Spring Meeting - Viral vectors and vaccines, Washington, DC
- 16 - 17 March 2017, Spring Symposium of the Netherlands Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (NVGCT), Lunteren, The Netherlands
- 17 March 2017, British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (BSGCT) Public Engagement 2017, Oxford, UK
- 27 - 28 March 2017, 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Cell and Gene Therapy, Madrid, Spain
- 29 - 30 March 2017, 19th International Conference on Cell and Gene Therapy - ICCGT 2017, Singapore
- 19 - 21 April 2017, Annual conference of the British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (BSGCT), Cardiff, Wales, UK
- 3 - 6 May 2017,International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) 23th Annual Meeting, London, UK
- 10 - 11 May 2017, Genome Editing & Advances in Transgenic Technology USA Congress, Boston, MA
- 10 - 13 May 2017, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 20th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
- 14 - 19 May 2017, Gordon Research Conference: Virusses & Cells, Lucca, Italy
- 17 - 19 May 2017, World Advanced Therapies and Regenerative Medicine Congress 2017, London, UK
- 24 - 26 May 2017, 10th Australasian Gene Therapy Society Meeting (AGCTS), Sydney, Australia
- 8 - 9 June 2017, 2nd Edition of Biorpocessing of Advance Cellular Therapies Congress, London, UK
- 26 - 27 June 2017, Cell Culture and Cell Therapy: Bioprocessing Conference, Philidelphia, PA
- 20 - 22 July 2017, The 23th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Gene Therapy (JSGT), Okayama City, Japan
- 31 August - 1 September 2017, 2nd International Conference on Nucleic Acids, Molecular Biology & Biologics Conference, Philadelphia, PA
- 17 – 20 October 2017, XXV Congress of the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT), Berlin, Germany
- 9 - 10 November 2017, 3rd Annual Genome Editing Congress, London, UK
- 9 - 10 November 2017, 3rd Annual Cell & Gene Therapy Congress, London, UK
- 15 - 17 November 2017, 16th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases, Sonoma, California

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