Community participation gaps look less like a question of patient willingness and more like a financing and infrastructure problem that no single bill has yet solved.
|Articles|December 8, 2022
Emmes Launches Cell and Gene Therapy Center
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Emmes announced the creation of a dedicated center to enhance its depth in cell and gene therapy research.
The new center will focus on supporting the clinical trials of clients who are developing cell and gene therapies across multiple therapeutic areas, including hematology, oncology, cardiology and ophthalmology, as well as rare diseases. The center will combine a team of 100 researchers.
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