The Gene Therapy Superhighway
Executive Summary
Gene Therapy companies need delivery devices for their therapies and device companies must increasingly embrace biotechnologies to improve and differentiate their increasingly commoditized offerings. In a handful of device/biotech deals signed in the pas year, device companies are gaining exclusive worldwide rights to new cardiovascular gene therapies. The next meeting ground for gene therapies and devices: orthobiologics.
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