What is Advanced Therapy?

Описание: Advanced therapies are new approaches to medicine that use stem cells, genes and tissues to treat a wide range of conditions.
These therapies have the potential to transform the treatments of some diseases.

For example, patients with haemophilia currently need regular injections to help their blood clot.

Treatments using gene therapy may remove the life-long need for medication by getting the patient’s own cells to make the missing factor.

Similarly, patients may be helped to regain function following a stroke with the use of stem cells.

So advanced therapies may offer treatments for some conditions that are currently hard to treat and in some cases actually lead to a lasting cure.

Over £500m invested since 2010

Clinical trials for advanced therapies are currently working on treatments for a range of conditions including cancer and degenerative diseases and over £500 million of gene and cell therapy venture capital funding has been invested since 2010.

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