LatestCliniciansPacientsResearchersCell therapyGen TherapyCTGCTRodrigo Ortiz 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 ... 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
EventsResearchersCell therapyGen TherapyClinic studyMarketaccessRegulationCTGCTRodrigo Ortiz 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 ... 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
EventsResearchersCell therapyResearchCTGCTNICRodrigo Ortiz 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 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
ArticlesCliniciansPacientsResearchersCell therapyGen TherapyLaboratoryResearchCTGCTNICRodrigo Ortiz 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 ... More
ArticlesCliniciansPacientsResearchersCell therapyResearchCTGCTNICRodrigo Ortiz 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 ... 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
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
ArticlesPacientsATMPsCell therapyGen TherapyBusiness ModelEconomicsPre ClinicalResearchCTGCTNICRodrigo Ortiz 28 February 2025 How Patient Advocacy is Driving Breakthroughs to Treat CTNNB1 Syndrome Imagine a world where a child’s genetic disorder, once considered untreatable, is finally on a path toward real solutions. For families affected by the CTNNB1 syndrome, that future is becoming a reality thanks to ... More
ArticlesCliniciansPacientsResearchersATMPsCell therapyResearchCTGCTNICRodrigo Ortiz 25 February 2025 Controlling Cells With Chemically Switchable Antibodies: A New Opportunity For Precision Therapy Imagine being able to turn a cell’s behavior ON or OFF, just like flipping a light switch. That’s exactly what scientists have achieved with the innovative technology presented in this paper published in the ... More
