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ArticleHuman gene therapy methods2017

Development of the First World Health Organization Lentiviral Vector Standard: Toward the Production Control and Standardization of Lentivirus-Based Gene Therapy Products.

Yuan Zhao, Hannah Stepto, Christian K Schneider

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Article in Human gene therapy methods, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yuan Zhao1 Division of Advanced Therapies, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) , Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), South Mimms, United Kingdom .
Hannah Stepto1 Division of Advanced Therapies, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) , Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), South Mimms, United Kingdom .
Christian K Schneider1 Division of Advanced Therapies, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) , Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), South Mimms, United Kingdom .
National Institute for Biological Standards and Control · GBCenter for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research · DE

Funding

Department of Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene therapy is a rapidly evolving field. So far, there have been >2,400 gene therapy products in clinical trials and four products on the market. A prerequisite for producing gene therapy products is ensuring their quality and safety. This requires appropriately controlled and standardized production and testing procedures that result in consistent safety and efficacy. Assuring the quality and safety of lentivirus-based gene therapy products in particular presents a great challenge because they are cell-based multigene products that include viral and therapeutic proteins as well as modified cells. In addition to the continuous refinement of a product, changes in production sites and manufacturing processes have become more and more common, posing challenges to developers regarding reproducibility and comparability of results. This paper discusses the concept of developing a first World Health Organization International Standard, suitable for the standardization of assays and enabling comparison of cross-trial and cross-manufacturing results for this important vector platform. The standard will be expected to optimize the development of gene therapy medicinal products, which is especially important, given the usually orphan nature of the diseases to be treated, naturally hampering reproducibility and comparability of results.

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World Health OrganizationCell Line, TumorGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsHEK293 CellsHumansLentivirusgenomic DNAintegration analysisLV productionqPCR quantitationWHO standard

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PMID28747142
PMCPMC5628571
OpenAlexW2740666911

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