Empowered Patient Podcast

Dr. Luca Benatti is the CEO of EryDel, a biotech company developing and commercializing cell-therapy treatments for rare diseases using autologous red blood cell encapsulation technology to deliver drugs. With a focus on the rare genetic disease Ataxia Telangiectasia (AT), Erydel has just completed a multi-center, multi-national phase III trial for the disease. Their symptomatic treatment has been shown to delay the progression of the disease and could be part of a regular immunoglobulin therapy session for these patients. Luca explains, "The first characteristic of our technology since there are similar technologies that utilize red blood cells to deliver therapeutics, is that we are the only one that has developed a technology that can work at the bedside. So, it's really the only one that can use the patient's blood, and we don't need to have a centralized lab. The beauty of this technology is that it is the only one that can use a sustained release formulations technology - that is, the one that is actual