Gene Therapy in a Patient with Sickle Cell Disease

Jean-Antoine Ribeil1, Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina1, Emmanuel Payen1

  • 1From the Departments of Biotherapy (J.-A.R., A.M., E.M., L.C., M.C.), Clinical Pharmacy (P. Bourget), Pediatric Neuroradiology (D.G.), General Pediatrics (M.M.), and Pediatric Immunology-Hematology Unit (B.N., S.B.), Necker Children's Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Biotherapy Clinical Investigation Center, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Ouest, AP-HP, INSERM (J.-A.R., A.M., E.M., L.C., L.W., M.C.), Unité de Technologies Chimiques et Biologiques pour la Santé, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 8258, INSERM Unité 1022, Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris, Université Paris Descartes, Chimie ParisTech (S.H.-B.-A.), Immunology Laboratory, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris-Sud, Hôpital Kremlin-Bicêtre, AP-HP, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (S.H.-B.-A.), the Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, Imagine Institute, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité University (M.S., B.N., L.W., M.C.), Mère-Enfant Clinical Investigation Center, Groupe Hospitalier Necker Cochin (M.S.), Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité University, INSERM Institut National de Transfusion Sanguine, Unité Biologie Intégrée du Globule Rouge, Laboratoire d'Excellence GR-Ex (W.E.N.), and Laboratoires de Virologie, Hôpital Cochin (J.-F.M.), Paris, Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission, Université Paris-Sud, Fontenay-aux-Roses (E.P., Y.B., S.C., P.L.), Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Equipe 2, Centre de Référence des Syndromes Drépanocytaires Majeurs, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Henri Mondor, AP-HP, Laboratoire d'Excellence GR-Ex, Créteil (P. Bartolucci), and Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité University, INSERM Unité 1149, Hôpital Louis-Mourier, AP-HP, Laboratoire d'Excellence GR-Ex, Colombes (H.P., T.L.) - all in France; Bluebird Bio, Cambridge (R.W.R., O.N., G.V., L.S., S.S.), and Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (P.L.) - both in Massachusetts; and Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (P.L.).

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