Over these recent months of doing our jobs in a primarily work-from-home environment, the Generation Bio team has remained committed to connectivity, which we’ve often had to innovate or reinvent in whole new ways. Throughout it all, though, we’ve continued to unite in shared goals, challenges and a vision to transform genetic medicine.
Earlier this summer, members of the team
What makes Generation Bio unique? Hear from our team.
At Generation Bio, we believe that culture is shaped by everyone in our community — each employee using their unique skills, experiences and personality to help us achieve our collective mission.
Manufacturing a global revolution in gene therapy
In the early 1940s, Pfizer executive John Smith wrote of the revolutionary drug penicillin: “[T]he yields are low, the isolation is difficult, the extraction is murder, the purification invites disaster, and the assay is unsatisfactory.”1
Moving forward: How our new space powers our mission to bring next generation gene therapies to patients
Although we do affectionately refer to it as “301,” our new headquarters is more than an address. It’s an integral part of who we are, what we value, and what we aim to achieve.
Bringing the light of gene therapy to more patients
Thomas Edison’s first lightbulb in 1879 sparked a revolution. Using electricity that was passed through a platinum filament, his glass bulb required less power than the existing lamps of the day.
But it also lasted only a few hours before burning out.
Genetic diseases steal too many kids' futures. It doesn’t have to be this way.
This piece was originally published on WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
I want to live in a world where children have never heard of hemophilia or cystic fibrosis, because we have all but eradicated those diseases.
Right from the beginning: returning to the origins of the orphan drug movement
This article was originally published as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC.
Our industry stands at the beginning of the most significant opportunity to impact genetic and metabolic disease we have ever encountered –
