Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2019
Canadian breakthrough that became the world's most expensive drug, then vanished, gets second chance
17 October 2019 - CBC story about how pharmaceutical industry abandoned gene therapy Glybera sparks NRC effort to re-invent it.
A made-in-Canada medical breakthrough that disappeared from the market because it wasn't profitable is being revived by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).
It's the latest chapter in the saga of Glybera, the world's first approved gene therapy, which also became the world's most expensive drug after it was licensed to a Dutch company and priced at $1 million for a one-time dose.
