New UK funding for gene therapy

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United Kingdom

The UK Medical Research Council, a public body, and LifeArc, an independent charity, are making £16 million available to establish a network of centres that will offer clinical grade viral vectors and translational and regulatory guidance to support academic-led patient trials of new gene therapies.

Grants for up to five years will support these gene therapy innovation hubs which will form a centrally coordinated network designed to enable the sharing of knowledge across all of the units, the two organisations said on 4 May.