G20 Global Pharma Summit Series-Mexico

There is a paradigm shift taking place in the field of medicine from managing ailments to healing them entirely. By obviating the need for lengthy treatments, curative therapies like cell and gene therapies are altering the way we handle chronic diseases or difficult-to-treat ailments. In gene therapy, genetic material is inserted into the cells to generate a protein that will help treat a disease or to make up for defective genes. The most popular vectors used for gene therapy are viruses that have been genetically altered.