But testing two experimental drugs in a clinical trial is forbidden, and even if it weren't, it would be tricky to get two pharmaceutical companies to
hop into human testing together.
In a talk at MIT Technology Reviews» EmTech conference Wednesday night, Katrine Bosley, the CEO of Editas Medicine, explained how her company would begin to bring the gene editing technology
CRISPR into human testing.
And because their signal blocker is an antibody already in phase I clinical trials for cancer treatment, they're hoping to make a quick
jump into human testing for cardiovascular disease.
It's been enormously fun watching, over these last few years, the progress that we're making in the laboratory translate into progress that we're making on the engineering side and moving that
right into human testing.
Based on their success to date in models of glaucoma, the researchers are making significant steps toward
moving into human testing and validation of a biomarker for clinical use.
If it weren't for «Catalyst for a Cure», I don't think we'd have made the progress we're now making in moving candidate therapies out of the laboratory and
into human testing.
You could turn
yourself into a human test subject.