Curing Disease with Gene Therapy
August 2012, Volume 7, No. 8

Curing Disease with Gene Therapy

Curing Disease with Gene Therapy

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Learning Objectives

  • List the primary immune deficiencies.
  • Define chronic granulomatous disease, graft-versus-host disease, and myelodysplasia.
  • Recognize gene transfer methods in genetic therapy.
  • Understand insertional mutagenesis and somatic cell reprogramming.
  • Discuss the recombinant vector and changes in vector technology.
Curing Disease with Gene Therapy

David A. Williams, MD

Current source of funding from royalties: RetroNectin® produced by Takara Bio Inc. This issue does not contain a discussion of unapproved/investigative use of a commercial prod-uct/device.

Curing Disease with Gene Therapy

Mary C. Dinauer, MD, PhD

Dr. Dinauer disclosed no financial relationship relevant to this issue. This issue does not contain a discussion of unapproved/investigative use of a commercial product/device.

Curing Disease with Gene Therapy

Donald B. Kohn, MD

Dr. Kohn disclosed no financial relationship relevant to this issue. This issue does not contain a discussion of unapproved/investigative use of a commercial product/device.