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.
More than a decade after they were first formed, gene therapy
companies are still largely university research organizations in
commercial disguise.
When gene therapy companies first got started, scientists believed that implanted genes could become in situfactories continually manufacturing and delivering...