Research

For families affected by a rare and ultra-rare genetic disorder, the distance between a promising laboratory result and an accessible treatment can feel impossibly large. Developing a gene therapy requires much more than identifying ...

Every cell in the human body contains essentially the same genetic instructions, yet a heart cell behaves very differently from a nerve or skin cell. For many years, scientists assumed that once a cell ...

Cancer treatment has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past decade. What if, instead of relying solely on drugs to attack tumors, we could reprogram a patient's own immune cells to seek out and ...

CRISPR technologies can rewrite a disease-causing DNA sequence, switch a gene off, correct a single genetic letter or even alter gene activity without changing the underlying DNA. Yet a genome editor can only work ...

What if one of the biggest obstacles in gene therapy could be solved by borrowing a concept from everyday life? Just as Velcro joins two separate pieces together to create a strong and functional ...

How does a breakthrough gene therapy begin? What does it take to turn a scientific idea into a treatment that can reach a patient? In this interview, Duško Lainšček, researcher at the Institute of Chemistry ...

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), ...

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 ...

In our latest edition of the CTGCT Science Talks webinar series we had Dr. Thomas Fox, a clinician-scientist whose work bridges the gap between the clinical-laboratory interface working across Harvard Medical School and the ...

Last week 3 of our colleagues (Tjaša, Mojca and Tina) attended the UCL Advanced Therapies Symposium 2026 in London, an event dedicated to recent developments in cell and gene therapies and to strengthening links ...

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 ...