Future Watch: Gene & Cell Therapy
A Revolution In Medicine And Healthcare Blog

The Early Days When We Knew Nothing It is uncertain how the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV initially infected humans although there ...

Contributing Author: Gina Hagler When reports of a new immune deficiency disease hit the news in the summer and fall of 1981, ...

Contributing Author John Vandermosten, Senior Biotechnology Analyst Gene therapy is a diverse technology that can address a broad variety of diseases, conditions and ...

Contributing writer: Gina Hagler An emerging drug development model has the potential to reduce the cost of treatments for rare diseases. What ...

By Contributing Writer Gina Hagler There are nearly 7,000 rare diseases affecting approximately 1% of the global population. When your child is ...

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) has provided thought-provoking content since 1922. Whether business leaders are interested in optimizing their organizational structure or ...

TED Talks began in 1984 as a conference originating in Silicon Valley where powerful voices in Technology, Entertainment, and Design came together ...

Written by Jeff Galvin, CEO of American Gene Technologies The birth of high-value therapeutics and cures Does the development of effective drugs have ...

Contributing Author John Vandermosten, Senior Biotechnology Analyst Examining events of the past can give us a sense of what to expect in the ...

by Irene Tennant VP of Clinical Product Development and Regulatory Affairs Developing treatments for rare diseases has many challenges. These challenges are ...

Contributing Author John Vandermosten, Senior Biotechnology Analyst Over the last two months nothing has dominated the news as extensively as the coronavirus pandemic ...

Contributing Author John Vandermosten, Senior Biotechnology Analyst As we enter the twelfth year of an economic expansion, deal activity remains one of ...

Contributing Author:  Norman Rogers, Business Development Lead at AGT Gene therapy is a tool to modify the composition and expression of human ...

Today Human immunity is a beautifully complex system. Students of science around the world groan at the mention of immunology because of ...

You don’t have to look far to find someone affected by HIV. It is estimated 1.1 million Americans are infected with the ...

Is HIV Curable? American Gene Technologies (AGT) believes it is. Read why AGT's Chief Science Officer is committed to discovering a cure ...

Maryland is home to one of the largest life science clusters in the nation. According to the Maryland Department of Commerce, the ...

Why has gene therapy become so significant within the last five years? While it is not well-known, the genes we are born ...

American Gene Technologies (AGT) recently hosted a panel of thought leaders from five different industries at the Hot Technologies & Innovations event ...

At times mothers do not get enough credit. However, today, let’s shine a light on the scientists who were raising children, at ...

Today and this week are the times of year we honor nurses. On this National Nurses Day, we asked Caroline, a local ...

There have been historic moments in scientific research that have gone unnoticed. Often we don’t hear about these scientific discoveries until they ...

On January 3rd, Bristol-Myers Squibb announced its agreement to acquire Celgene for approximately $74 billion. This merger is a sign of change ...

Today the world celebrated the second patient cured of HIV. The work of Ravindra Gupta teaches us lessons not only of the ...

Research and innovation to cure HIV is developing fast. American Gene Technologies (AGT) is emerging as a leader in the field with ...

The future of medicine is bright. This year brought several first in class technologies over the finish line. The underpinning of these ...

The most common analogy used to compare the science of DNA to other industries is that of computer software. DNA can be ...