EventsCliniciansPacientsResearchersATMPsClinic studyRodrigo Ortiz 5 March 2026 Event Date: 27 February 2026 • 09:00 do: 27 February 2026 • 15:30 CTGCT at the 12th National Rare Disease Day Conference On Friday, February 27, 2026, part of our team joined experts, decision-makers, and patient advocates at the 12th National Rare Disease Day Conference held at the Congress Center Brdo pri Kranju. The event, organized by ... More
ArticlesPacientsResearchersATMPsResearchCTGCTNICRodrigo Ortiz 3 March 2026 Remote-Controlling the Cell: The Future of Precision Medicine? Imagine if we could talk to our cells the same way we talk to a smart home device. We could tell a cell to start producing a specific medicine only when it’s needed or ... More
ArticlesCliniciansPacientsATMPsGen TherapyResearchTUDRodrigo Ortiz 12 February 2026 Molecular Surgery: How Base Editors are Rewriting the Future of Cancer Therapy Imagine being able to open the "instruction manual" of a human cell and fix a single typo that causes a life-threatening disease. This is no longer science fiction; it is the reality of base ... More
EventsPacientsResearchersATMPsCell therapyLaboratoryManufacturing ProcessResearchCharite BerlinRodrigo Ortiz 10 December 2025 Event Date: 12 January 2026 • 14:00 do: 12 January 2026 • 14:30 CTGCT Science Talks January – Claudia Beltran Mestres On the 12th of January 2026, Claudia Beltran Mestre, from the Berlin Center for Advanced Therapies at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin will present in our CTGCT Science Talks webinar series. The talk is titled "Automation of ... More
ArticlesPacientsResearchersATMPsGMPLaboratoryManufacturing ProcessPre ClinicalUMCUtrechtRodrigo Ortiz 9 December 2025 Bridging the Gap: The Role of GMP Simulation in ATMP Translation In recent decades, the medical toolbox has expanded dramatically. While traditional medicine relied on synthetic drugs (small molecules interacting with specific pathways) and later biologicals like antibodies, we have now entered the era of ... More
EventsPacientsResearchersATMPsClinic studyRegulationCTGCTRodrigo Ortiz 18 November 2025 Event Date: 10 November 2025 do: 11 November 2025 • CTGCT at the CREATIC Conference 2025: Driving Advanced Therapy Innovation We were thrilled to participate in the 2nd Central European Conference for Advanced Therapy and Immunotherapy (CREATIC Conference 2025), a significant European event focusing on the advancement of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs). Organized ... More
ATMPsCell therapyGen TherapyBusiness ModelDrug DiscoveryEconomicsMarketaccessRegulationCTGCTGregor Cuzak 10 October 2025 Academic developers for affordable medicines CTGCT (Centre for the Technologies of Gene and Cell Therapy, at National institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana) has joined the statement to preserve the Hospital Exemption in the revised EU pharmaceutical legislation. The Joint Statement, ... More
Media ReleasesCliniciansPacientsResearchersATMPsGen TherapyResearchCTGCTNICRodrigo Ortiz 10 October 2025 A Nobel-Worthy Topic: Harnessing Inflammation to Fight Cancer On October 6th, the very day the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for groundbreaking work in T-cell based cancer immunotherapy, our CTGCT community had the pleasure of hosting a talk ... More
EventsCliniciansPacientsResearchersATMPsCell therapyGen TherapyResearchCharite BerlinCTGCTNICTUDUCLUMCUtrechtRodrigo Ortiz 4 July 2025 Event Date: 15 September 2025 do: 17 September 2025 • CTGCT Days 2025 – 15th to 17th September, Ljubljana REGISTER to join us at CTGCT Days 2025! A 3-day event in Ljubljana, Slovenia, spotlighting breakthroughs in gene & cell therapies (GCT) and their clinical translation. More
EventsCliniciansPacientsResearchersATMPsCell therapyGen TherapyBusiness ModelMarketaccessCTGCTNICGregor Cuzak 20 May 2025 Event Date: 1 May 2025 do: 31 May 2025 • Posters at Krakovski nasip – Ljubljanica embankment In May 2025, our Centre for the Technologies of Gene and Cell Therapy CTGCT) is participating in a poster exhibition on Krakovski nasip, as part of the Chemical Institute’s public presentation. More
EventsCliniciansResearchersATMPsRegulationResearchRodrigo Ortiz 15 April 2025 ADVANCE 5-day Summer School on Cell and Gene Therapies The next ADVANCE school on ATMP from Faculty of Pharmacy will happen here in Ljubljana. We think is a great FREE opportunity to learn more about ATMPs. Learn more in the official page of ... More
ArticlesCliniciansResearchersATMPsCell therapyGen TherapyManufacturing ProcessRegulationCTGCTUMCUtrechtRodrigo Ortiz 5 March 2025 Navigating Viral Vector Production for Gene Therapy This week we had the opportunity to listen to Ganesh Ramesh, a PhD candidate at the Viral Vector Production Center for Translation Immunology of UMC Utrecht, under the supervision of Dr. Zsolt Sebestyen. Here ... More
