How to Handle Live Therapeutics Despite Lack of Guiding Document

By Gina ShawAs live biotherapeutics move from research pipelines into routine clinical care, pharmacy leaders are confronting a growing challenge: There is no single, pharmacy-specific roadmap for safely handling therapies that contain or rely on live biological material.“There’s no one-stop shopping,” said Kevin E. Anger, PharmD, BCPS, the pharmacy director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston. “You have the NIOSH [National Institute for Occupational Safety a