Question

Who is the father of gene therapy?

Answer 1

Gene therapy:

1. Gene therapy is the use of nucleic acid polymers as a drug to treat disease, where they correct genetic abnormalities.
2. The most common form of gene therapy involves using DNA that encodes a functional, therapeutic gene to replace a mutated gene.

William French Anderson is known as ‘the father of gene therapy’. The first gene therapy was given in 1990 to a 4-year-old girl suffering from ADA deficiency.