Cracking the Code that Runs Us: The Future of Gene Therapy

The discovery of DNA in the 1850s allowed us to see into the genetic code of individual humans. Now gene editing, a technique by which the gene or genes that make us susceptible to some diseases, allows that code to be rewritten. In this episode we look at the ways in which gene editing is being used to turn that century-old breakthrough into the future of medicine.

Featuring:

• Pino Ciaramella is the chief scientific officer and president of Beam Therapeutics 
• Paul Offit is the director of the Vaccine Education Centre at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of the book You Bet Your Life: The Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation  
• Neville Sanjana is a core faculty member at the New York genome center and also an assistant professor of biology at NYU
• Will Sevush is Jefferies’ healthcare desk specialist