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Commercialization of cell and gene therapy in Canada: Current landscape, challenges and opportunities
Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) offer transformative treatments for certain genetic diseases and cancers, with a growing number of global approvals. Yet Canadian commercialization lags behind the USA and Europe. This review identifies key barriers and proposes policy solutions informed by international examples. A policy-oriented environmental scan was conducted using regulatory documents, peer-reviewed literature, government reports, and industry publications. Barriers and solutions are organized into four domains: regulation, manufacturing, pricing and reimbursement, and access and equity. Despite recent investment downturns in this therapeutic area, Canada’s approval of its first clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based therapy and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell expansion suggest future growth. Strategic reforms could improve domestic CGT innovation, affordability, and equitable access.
期刊介绍:
Drug Discovery Today delivers informed and highly current reviews for the discovery community. The magazine addresses not only the rapid scientific developments in drug discovery associated technologies but also the management, commercial and regulatory issues that increasingly play a part in how R&D is planned, structured and executed.
Features include comment by international experts, news and analysis of important developments, reviews of key scientific and strategic issues, overviews of recent progress in specific therapeutic areas and conference reports.