Gen Therapy Archives

9 April 2026 Event Date: 3 June 2026 • 08:30 do: 3 June 2026 • 17:30

Our next big event: GeneH & 21st CFGBC Scientific Symposium

We are proud to announce that in partnership with the Centre for Functional Genomics and Biochips (CFGBC),we are organising a scientific symposium held at the University of Ljubljana this 3rd of June. The event ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

25 September 2025

From Film Editing to RNA Editing: How RNA Trans-splicing Could Treat CTNNB1 Syndrome

Imagine you're in a movie editing studio, trying to fix a film with some corrupted scenes. The film is vital, as it plays a crucial role in the development and function of an entire ...

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.

5 June 2025

Unraveling the Mysteries of NLRP3: A Key Player in Inflammation

In the complex world of cellular biology, proteins play a crucial role in maintaining our body's health and responding to threats. One such protein, NLRP3, is known for its ability to assemble the inflammasome ...

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 ...

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.