New NHS gene therapy centre will help fight incurable diseases

Health chiefs say the Bristol Clinical Biotechnology Centre (CBC) will expand the UK’s ability to research and develop new therapies.

The Filton centre will look at incurable diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell, and officials say it could also offer personalised gene therapy and stem cell treatments in the future.

Dr Lilian Hook, NHSBT’s director of cell, apheresis and gene therapies, said “The CBC is basically a factory – it manufactures the building blocks (or components) needed to produce gene therapies.

“Researchers and developers can ask us to manufacture the specific components they require.

“This will enable cutting-edge research with the potential to develop cures for some critical diseases which can currently only be treated and ultimately prove fatal.”

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