Imperial College London
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EUR ING Dr Edward A Meinert

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Honorary Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Lam:2019:10.2196/preprints.17005,
author = {Lam, C and van, Velthoven MH and Meinert, E},
doi = {10.2196/preprints.17005},
title = {Developing a Blockchain-Based Supply Chain System for Advanced Therapies: Protocol for a Feasibility Study (Preprint)},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.17005},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <sec>                    <title>BACKGROUND</title>                        <p>Advanced therapies, including cell and gene therapies, have shown therapeutic promise in curing life-threatening diseases, such as leukemia and lymphoma. However, these therapies can be complicated and expensive to deliver due to their sensitivity to environment; troublesome tissue, cell, or genetic material sourcing; and complicated regulatory requirements.</p>                </sec>                                <sec>                    <title>OBJECTIVE</title>                        <p>This study aims to create a novel connected supply chain logistics and manufacturing management platform based on blockchain, with cell and gene therapy as a use case. Objectives are to define the requirements and perform feasibility evaluations on the use of blockchain for standardized manufacturing and establishment of a chain of custody for the needle-to-needle delivery of autologous cell and gene therapies. A way of lowering overall regulatory compliance costs for running a network of facilities operating similar or parallel processes will be evaluated by lowering the monitoring costs through publishing zero-knowledge proofs and product release by exception.</p>                </sec>                                <sec>                    <title>METHODS</title>                        <p>The study will use blockchain technologies to digitally connect and integrate supply chain with manufacturing to address the security, scheduling, and communication issues between advanced therapy treatment centers and manufacturing facilities in order to realize a transparent, secure, automated, and cost-effective solution to the delivery of these life-saving therapies. An agile software development methodology will be used to develop, implement, and evaluate the system. The system will adhere to the EU and US good manufactu
AU  - Lam,C
AU  - van,Velthoven MH
AU  - Meinert,E
DO  - 10.2196/preprints.17005
PY  - 2019///
TI  - Developing a Blockchain-Based Supply Chain System for Advanced Therapies: Protocol for a Feasibility Study (Preprint)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.17005
ER  -
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