EventsPacientsATMPsCell therapyGen TherapyDrug DiscoveryCTGCTNICGregor Cuzak 23 June 2026 CTGCT and the National Institute of Chemistry presented gene and cell therapies to students of Gimnazija Jesenice. 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. More
ArticlesResearchersGen TherapyResearchCTGCTRodrigo Ortiz 18 June 2026 Inside the GeneH Consortium Meeting and Symposium we organised 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), ... More
EventsResearchersGen TherapyPre ClinicalResearchCTGCTNICRodrigo Ortiz 8 June 2026 Event Date: 11 May 2026 do: 15 May 2026 • CTGCT at ASGCT 2026 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 ... More
EventsResearchersGen TherapyResearchCTGCTRodrigo Ortiz 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 ... 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
EventsCliniciansResearchersCell therapyGen TherapyResearchTUDRodrigo Ortiz 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 ... More
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
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
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
ArticlesCliniciansPacientsResearchersGen TherapyResearchCTGCTNICRodrigo Ortiz 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 ... 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