Stack Foundation Gives UC San Diego $5M Gift to Advance Gene Therapy
The Stack Foundation has gifted $5 million to the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) to facilitate gene therapy research for the development of new treatments for genetic disorders in adults and children. UC San Diego said in a recent statement it would launch a Gene Therapy Initiative to meet the need for safer and more effective therapies. Genetic diseases affect fewer than 200,000 people in the United States and can be incredibly hard to treat, especially in the case of rare genetic disorders that have fewer patients to study for the development of effective therapies. Thanks to…