AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
...It was by serendipity that I got into the field of gene therapy, more specifically AAV-based retinal ...trial gone horribly wrong. It brought the whole field to a grinding stop and only now, 2 decades later... work and a little bit of luck
A pioneer in the field, Dr. Jean Bennett started working on ways to deliver...Gene therapy was in its infancy, but the eye was identified early on as an ideal target. It is an easily ...have broad tropism in the eye. AAV-2, the first identified serotype and the one used in Luxturna™, can efficiently...