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Article: Gene Therapy Researchers React To Field's Pitfalls And Promises.(greater promise being demonstrated for gene therapy)(Brief Article)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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THE LAST WORD
The possibility of correcting human genetic disorders by gene therapy caught the imagination of the scientific community as well as that of the public long before the first clinical gene transfer experiment was launched ten years ago. During the ensuing decade, however, the extraordinarily high level of expectation has proven to be grossly optimistic. This prompted Dr. Harold Varmus, then Director of the National Institutes of Health, to appoint two separate committees in the mid-1990s to evaluate the field of gene therapy. The committees independently concluded that clinical applications of gene transfer could not possibly succeed without adequate ...