Big gene therapy names line up behind experimental Covid-19 vaccine
An early stage vaccine against Covid-19 based on the same basic technology used in gene therapy is gaining some support from some of that field’s biggest names.
Earlier this year, James Wilson, a gene therapy pioneer, got a call from Luk Vanderberghe, who had been a graduate student in Wilson’s lab two decades ago. Vanderberghe wondered if a virus they had worked on as a potential component of gene therapies might work as part of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
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