A news release said six research funding organizations contributed funds, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Terry Fox Research Institute and the Canadian Cancer Society.
The provincial and federal governments signed a four-year agreement last year to implement a national PharmaCare initiative in B.C. with $670 million in federal government funding.
Ty Sperle is the first person known to have received and be cured by a treatment known as ‘prime editing,’ in a breakthrough by U.S.-based Prime Medicine reported in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine last December.
