Personalized cell and gene therapies offer a beacon of hope to patients in need and vast financial prospects for emerging companies in the pharmaceutical industry. Because of their high cost of development, batch size of one, and complex shipping requirements, most remain boutique treatments, prized – and costly – options of last resort. It’s why companies stretch every dollar to push their therapeutics through clinical trials, going as far as to charter planes to deliver each dose of bespoke therapeutic to its patient.
But the hard truth is that, as life-changing as these treatments may be, to scale to thousands of patients and survive on the market, they’ll need to break out of the boutique. This will require rethinking their supply chain and logistics.
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