Gene therapy aims to change or manipulate the expression of a gene or alter the biological properties of living cells for therapeutic use. Gene therapy is a technique that changes a person's genes to treat or cure disease. Gene therapies can work through a variety of mechanisms: replacing a disease-causing gene with a healthy copy, inactivating (silencing) a disease-causing gene that is not working properly, introducing a new or changed gene into the body to help treat a disease.

Gene therapy products; It is being researched for the treatment of many diseases, especially cancer, genetic diseases and infectious diseases. Gene therapy products: Structures known as plasmid DNA contain circular DNA molecules and can be genetically engineered to deliver therapeutic genes into human cells. Viruses, while viral vectors, have a natural ability to transfer genetic material into cells, and therefore some gene therapy products are derived from viruses. Once viruses are modified to eliminate their ability to cause infectious diseases, these modified viruses can be used as vectors (vehicles) to deliver therapeutic genes into human cells.

Bacterial vectors, on the other hand, can be modified to prevent them from causing infectious diseases and can then be used as vectors to deliver therapeutic genes into human tissues. Focusing on human gene editing technology, the aims of gene editing are to disrupt harmful genes or repair mutated genes. In patient-derived cellular gene therapy products, cells are taken from the patient, genetically modified (usually using a viral vector), and then returned to the patient.

It includes theoretical and practical training on gene therapy products and gene therapy methods.