CTGCT

What if one of the biggest obstacles in gene therapy could be solved by borrowing a concept from everyday life? Just as Velcro joins two separate pieces together to create a strong and functional ...

On 23 July, a workshop was held at the CTGCT following the installation of a new Infinite 200 PRO luminometer. During the session, our colleagues were introduced to the instrument and received hands-on training ...

How does a breakthrough gene therapy begin? What does it take to turn a scientific idea into a treatment that can reach a patient? In this interview, Duško Lainšček, researcher at the Institute of Chemistry ...

How can Europe accelerate the journey from scientific discovery to life-changing treatments for patients with rare genetic diseases? This question was at the heart of a recent Bloomberg Adria interview featuring Dr. Mojca Benčina ...

On 12 June 2026, representatives of the National Institute of Chemistry and CTGCT visited Gimnazija Jesenice, where they presented modern biological medicines and the development of gene and cell therapies to third-year students.

The CTGCT was represented at the GMP Symposium 2026, held in Tuheljske Toplice, where leading experts gathered to exchange knowledge and practical experiences in GMP environments. As part of the scientific program, our head Dr. ...

On the 2nd of June 2026, the GeneH Consortium met together in Ljubljana for their yearly meeting and on the 3rd the consortium organized together with the Center for Functional Genomics and BioChips (CFGBC), ...

At the ASGCT 2026 Annual Meeting in Boston (May 11–15, 2026), held held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, our colleague Dr. Duško Lainšček presented two pieces of work that reflect this translational reality. One of ...

On the 13th of May, part of the CTGCT team attended BioFair 5.0 the largest career event for students in the field of life sciences in Slovenia, organized by the non-profit student association BEST ...

In our latest edition of the CTGCT Science Talks webinar series we had Dr. Thomas Fox, a clinician-scientist whose work bridges the gap between the clinical-laboratory interface working across Harvard Medical School and the ...

Last week 3 of our colleagues (Tjaša, Mojca and Tina) attended the UCL Advanced Therapies Symposium 2026 in London, an event dedicated to recent developments in cell and gene therapies and to strengthening links ...