The first webinar and Q&A session in the series will be broadcast live on Tuesday 24 January at 5pm and will provide an introduction to gene-directed therapies and is presented by cellular therapeutics expert Dr James Patterson. The webinar and Q&A will cover:

• an introduction to gene-directed therapy modalities and strategies;
• the use of genetic approaches for ex vivo engineering of therapeutics;
• how we deliver gene medicines in vivo;
• novel in vivo gene-directed therapeutics for complex disease; and
• a discussion of near-term advancement and an overview of key challenges facing next generation approaches.