{"id":91820,"date":"2019-06-09T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-gene-therapy-revolution-is-here-medicine-is-scrambling-to-keep-pace"},"modified":"2019-06-09T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:43:34","slug":"the-gene-therapy-revolution-is-here-medicine-is-scrambling-to-keep-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-gene-therapy-revolution-is-here-medicine-is-scrambling-to-keep-pace","title":{"rendered":"The gene therapy revolution is here. Medicine is scrambling to keep pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-gene-therapy-revolution-is-here-medicine-is-scrambling-to-keep-pace2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greg Dore at the Kirby Institute of NSW participated in Australia\u2019s Hepatitis C pricing discussions, and believes our model will work for the new gene therapy drugs \u2013 notwithstanding their eye-popping price tags \u2013 and the fact that the patient populations for these rare genetic diseases will be tiny.<\/p>\n<p>However, the real reason companies are getting into gene therapy is not just to treat rare disease. It\u2019s because they realise this technology will be a game changer for medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-gene-therapy-revolution-is-here-medicine-is-scrambling-to-keep-pace-118329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Dore at the Kirby Institute of NSW participated in Australia\u2019s Hepatitis C pricing discussions, and believes our model will work for the new gene therapy drugs \u2013 notwithstanding their eye-popping price tags \u2013 and the fact that the patient populations for these rare genetic diseases will be tiny. However, the real reason companies are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91820","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}