Cell therapy Archives

15 April 2026

New Project Grant Received: Sonogenetics as a central modulator of CAR-T function and lineage commitment

As part of our efforts towards the sustainability of the CTGCT and with the goal in mind to develop new gene and cell therapies for cancer and rare diseases, our team members are applying ...

10 March 2026 Event Date: 13 April 2026 • 14:00 do: 13 April 2026 • 14:30

CTGCT Science Talks April – Dr. Thomas Fox

On Monday, 13th of April 2026, 2:00 PM (Ljubljana/Berlin time),Dr. Thomas Fox, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, University College London, ...

19 January 2026 Event Date: 2 February 2026 • 14:00 do: 2 February 2026 • 14:30

CTGCT Science Talks February – Dr. Shady Sayed

On Monday, 2nd of February 2026, 2:00 PM (Ljubljana/Berlin time), Dr. Shady Sayed from the Department of Medical Systems Biology, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany Fill up the form to ...

16 January 2026

Boosting Immunity After Transplantation: The Future of Automated T-Cell Therapy

For patients undergoing a life-saving organ transplant, the road to recovery is often a delicate balancing act. While the new organ offers a second chance, the drugs needed to prevent the body from rejecting ...

17 December 2025

CTGCT Newsletter No. 3 – Happy Holidays to everyone!

As the year wraps up, we want to share our third official CTGCT newsletter, summarizing a period of great growth, both in our team size and our scientific impact! In the last six months, we ...

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 ...

5 November 2025 Event Date: 27 October 2025 do: 29 October 2025 •

CTGCT Takeaways from the World Orphan Drug Congress Europe 2025

CTGCT attended the World Orphan Drug Congress (WODC) Europe 2025 in Amsterdam from the 27th to the 29th of October, an event dedicated to strategies and partnerships in the orphan drug industry. There were ...

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, ...

25 September 2025 Event Date: 6 October 2025 • 14:00 do: 6 October 2025 • 14:30

CTGCT Science Talks – Inflammasome-inspired cancer immunotherapy

On 6th October 2025 at 2:00 PM (Ljubljana/Berlin time) Dr. Iva Hafner Bratkovič will talk about her latest publication on inflammasome-inspired cancer immunotherapy

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.

3 June 2025

Harnessing Synthetic Biology for Innovative Medical Treatments

In the world of synthetic biology, scientists are pushing the boundaries of what's possible by designing proteins that can be controlled in specific ways. This review written by Tjaša Plaper, Urška Knez Štibler and ...

28 May 2025

How Ultrasound Can Control Cells, the Future of Medicine?

Members of our team have already published work on sonogenetics (check our article breaking down that research here). We think this could have interesting applications in the future, since it overcomes the issue of ...