{"id":134855,"date":"2022-01-28T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T02:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/a-george-church-spinout-fighting-the-viral-vector-bottleneck-in-cell-and-gene-therapy-lands-55m"},"modified":"2022-01-28T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T02:24:03","slug":"a-george-church-spinout-fighting-the-viral-vector-bottleneck-in-cell-and-gene-therapy-lands-55m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/a-george-church-spinout-fighting-the-viral-vector-bottleneck-in-cell-and-gene-therapy-lands-55m","title":{"rendered":"A George Church spinout fighting the viral vector bottleneck in cell and gene therapy lands $55M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-george-church-spinout-fighting-the-viral-vector-bottleneck-in-cell-and-gene-therapy-lands-55m2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>64x Bio comes out of the Har\u00advard De\u00adpart\u00adment of Ge\u00adnet\u00adics. CEO Lex Rovn\u00ader and her team \u2014 which right now, sits around 10 peo\u00adple \u2014 are look\u00ading to tack\u00adle a key hur\u00addle for ma\u00adjor com\u00adpa\u00adnies: man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00ading cell and gene therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Rovn\u00ader met Church while get\u00adting her PhD at Yale, and went on to do a post\u00addoc\u00adtor\u00adal re\u00adsearch fel\u00adlow\u00adship in his lab, and, when talk\u00ading to folks in the in\u00addus\u00adtry, found a mas\u00adsive vi\u00adral vec\u00adtor man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00ading bot\u00adtle\u00adneck that wasn\u2019t be\u00ading talked about.<\/p>\n<p>Af\u00adter a seed fund\u00ading round and the com\u00adpa\u00adny\u2019s launch in 2020, it made some noise in the in\u00addus\u00adtry, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly as Covid-19 made bot\u00adtle\u00adneck is\u00adsues more vis\u00adi\u00adble. There\u2019s a wait\u00adlist to get a vec\u00adtor from man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00aders, and not much of a so\u00adlu\u00adtion to the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>64x Bio comes out of the Har\u00advard De\u00adpart\u00adment of Ge\u00adnet\u00adics. CEO Lex Rovn\u00ader and her team \u2014 which right now, sits around 10 peo\u00adple \u2014 are look\u00ading to tack\u00adle a key hur\u00addle for ma\u00adjor com\u00adpa\u00adnies: man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00ading cell and gene therapies. Rovn\u00ader met Church while get\u00adting her PhD at Yale, and went on to do a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}