It was at the Clinimmune (a nonprofit biotech company in CU's Department of Medicine) lab at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus where scientists discovered they could edit a gene to make it resistant to auto-immune disease.
Brian Freed, PhD F(ACHI), the Executive Director of ClinImmune Cell and Gene Therapy (and professor of medicine), said, "So it's really like plastic surgery on the immune system."