The Intricate Cost of Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Gene therapies are the most expensive drugs in the world. And that is because producing a viral vector for "in vivo" gene therapy is arguably the most complicated process ever attempted at scale in biopharmaceuticals. In a prior video, I talked about the Chinese hamster's revolutionary impact on scaling antibody manufacturing. Today, let’s double-click on that (hate this phrase). In this video, we look at the history and complex manufacturing issues of viral vector gene therapy.

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