The overall necessity of this facility is to provide a laboratory solely dedicated to the development of clinical applications of gene therapy. The facility will be regulated by the FDA and required to practice both Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) as well as Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). It will also be certified to operate as a BL2 containment facility in the handling of potential biohazardous material.
Specific aims are described below: A) To provide a state-of-art laboratory with BL2 containment as well as GLP and GMP guidelines, B) To provide facilities and expertise in the development of gene transfer substrates that are being reviewed and certified by the FDA. C) To provide facilities and expertise in the harvest, isolation and cultivation of human cells that will be genetically modified and used as either preclinical data in the documentation of the feasibility and safety of gene transfer or used in an actual clinical protocol. D) To provide facilities and expertise in the implementation of preclinical studies under conditions that are acceptable to the FDA. E) To establish protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the applications of human gene therapies of general use to the institution, F) To establish a series of standard quality controls based on SOPs that are acceptable to the FDA that can be utilized in the certification of protocols. Mariann Grossman, the Director of the Human Applications laboratory (HAL) at the University of Pennsylvania, was responsible for certifying both gene therapy reagents, a recombinant retrovirus and a recombinant adenovirus, that are currently being used in the two gene therapy trials now underway at the medical center. The Human Applications Laboratory is also being set up to serve as a regional resource facility whereby gene therapy reagents are used at multiple institutions. In this application, partial support is requested to produce and validate clinical grade stocks of recombinant adenoviruses that express HSVTK. It is anticipated that four new viruses will be developed over the 5 year grant.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
3P01CA066726-04S1
Application #
6217453
Study Section
Project Start
1998-09-11
Project End
2000-03-31
Budget Start
1997-10-01
Budget End
1998-09-30
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Pennsylvania
Department
Type
DUNS #
042250712
City
Philadelphia
State
PA
Country
United States
Zip Code
19104
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