Excelsior Correspondent

VELLORE, Oct 10: Union Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh today inaugurated at the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, the 10th Annual “Cell and Gene Therapy” Symposium organised by the Centre for Stem Cell Research (CSCR), supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India.

The Union Minister also inaugurated a new 42-bed Medium-Cost Private Ward in the Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Jitendra Singh lauded the landmark achievement of CSCR, which recently completed India’s first-in-human gene therapy trial for Hemophilia A. The inherited bleeding disorder, caused by the deficiency of clotting Factor VIII, has long required costly lifelong treatment. CSCR’s approach, using lentiviral vectors instead of the commonly used AAV, expande

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