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$8.8M investment in Cell and Gene Therapy facilities across Australia

31 May 2019
Gene therapy

Gene Therapy

Therapeutic Innovation Australia (TIA) has announced their investment of $8.8M towards leading cell and gene therapy development and manufacturing facilities across Australia over the next four years. Sydney Cell and Gene Therapy (Westmead), part of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) is one of the lead facilities that will be supported through this investment to continue work in revol...

$2M to fund production of gene and cell therapies in NSW

21 August 2018
Gene therapy

Gene Therapy

NSW Health has announced $2M of funding towards infrastructure supporting the production of gene and cell therapies in NSW. The project will be led by researchers at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) and the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI). Gene therapy uses genes as medicine, which has immense therapeutic potential in the treatment of many genetic conditions and cancers...

Australian first: On-site vector production and use in a gene therapy trial

26 April 2018
Gene therapy

Gene therapy

Results of a Phase I Clinical Trial which employed genetic engineering technologies developed in-house at Kids Research have been published in Human Gene Therapy. It is the first example of a group in Australia to succeed in safely manufacturing and using clinical-grade vectors. The research, initiated nearly twenty years ago by Dr Geoffrey McCowage, paediatric oncologist at Cancer Centr...

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