Sentences with phrase «developing curative»

Nicholas P Restifo, MD, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, «Developing Curative Cancer Treatments Using Adoptive Cell Transfer - Based Immunotherapies»

In 2014, Caribou co-founded Intellia Therapeutics to develop curative medicines utilizing the Caribou CRISPR - Cas9 platform.

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Curative or neuroprotective therapy approaches are also developing.

«Understanding the molecular mechanisms by which asthma develops and establishes itself as a chronic disease is key to elucidating alternative and potentially curative therapies,» said Dr. Grayson.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

Diffuse scleroderma is characterized by a lower survival rate than other forms of the disease, and no curative pharmacological treatment options have been developed to - date.

Patients will be able to receive the Hutch's novel immunotherapies for cancer at roughly double the capacity that existed before the 9,222 - square - foot clinic opened, and intensive monitoring will enable researchers to better understand why some patients respond, where others do not, and to achieve the goal of developing the best curative approach to treatment for each individual patient.