En Route to Ethical Recommendations for Gene Transfer Clinical Trials

In Geneva, Switzerland, on 2–3 April 2007, Clinigene-NoE (the European Network for the Advancement of Clinical Gene Transfer and Therapy) and Consert (program on Concerted Safety and Efficiency Evaluation of Retroviral Transgenesis for Gene Therapy of Inherited Diseases)—two European Union (EU) programs that aim to facilitate the development of sound, safe, and effective human gene transfer—held a joint “think tank” on the ethics of human...