{"id":24096,"date":"2016-03-29T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/wirb-copernicus-group-establishes-wcg-gene-therapy-advisory-board"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:36:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:36:04","slug":"wirb-copernicus-group-establishes-wcg-gene-therapy-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/wirb-copernicus-group-establishes-wcg-gene-therapy-advisory-board","title":{"rendered":"WIRB-Copernicus Group Establishes WCG Gene Therapy Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wirb-copernicus-group-establishes-wcg-gene-therapy-advisory-board.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1st of many steps in the gene editing oversight.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>PRINCETON, N.J., March 29, 2016 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 WIRB-Copernicus Group<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (WCG\u2122), one of the world\u2019s leading providers of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced that it has assembled a team of world-renowned experts to advise the company regarding the latest advances in gene therapy research. The WCG Gene Therapy\u2122 Advisory Board will convene today in Princeton, NJ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman gene therapy is one of the fastest-growing areas of medical research, and also one of the most promising,\u201d said WCG Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Donald A. Deieso, Ph.D. \u201cThe advances made by scientists and clinicians in the field of gene therapy have enabled us to target disease at the genetic level, redefining the concept of precision medicine.\u201d He added, \u201cMore than that, gene transfer researchers have succeeded \u2013 over the course of a single lifetime \u2013 in transforming the world\u2019s most persistent and lethal viruses into disease-fighting allies in the quest to improve human health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/wirb-copernicus-group-establishes-wcg-gene-therapy-advisory-board-300242281.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/wirb-copernicus-grou...42281.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st of many steps in the gene editing oversight. PRINCETON, N.J., March 29, 2016 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 WIRB-Copernicus Group\u00ae (WCG\u2122), one of the world\u2019s leading providers of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced that it has assembled a team of world-renowned experts to advise the company regarding the latest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24096","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62234,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24096\/revisions\/62234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}