Is it a bad move to go into gene editing right now?

Hi everyone,

Gene editing seems to be doing pretty bad right now, the general sentiment I'm seeing here and around me is that it's simply too early for commercialisation of in-vivo gene editing, and the failures in clinical trials seem to support that.

I will start my PhD soon, and gene editing has been my main research interest for some time. I've been setting up for a PhD project on improving gene editing accuracy at a good university, but I'm starting to question this decision.

Is it really wise to go and specialize in an area with such an uncertain future in industry ? At the same time, I'm thinking that maybe I'll be getting out of my post-doc at exactly the right time, when it finally becomes viable... Anyhow, kind of sounds like gambling 10 years of my life.

What do you think ? Should I go into something safer ?