Therapy
There are over 7,000 rare diseases described, affecting about 20-30 million people in the U.S. alone, according to the NIH. While each condition has its specificities, there are common challenges in the rare disease space, such as finding patients and leveraging centers of excellence and referral networks. This article discusses such challenges and how partnering with SAI’s subject matter experts can help overcome them.
Immune effector cell (IEC) therapies, commonly referred as cell therapies, utilize human cells to cause or enhance an immune response against tumor cells. Following remarkable successes with several patients in the early 2010s – most notably, the case of Emily Whitehead, the first pediatric CAR-T patient, who recently celebrated 10 years of being cancer-free – IECs have become a key focus of investigations to help treat multiple types of cancer
