ESGCT Spring School 2026 is happening in Coimbra, Portugal from 14–17 April 🎓there are only 20 spots left!
Student or early-career researcher? This is your chance to join an intensive programme packed with workshops and talks. 🌟
Register now!
More info: https://www.esgct.eu/spring-school-programme
🎉 The third round of DG-GT #PaperOfTheQuarterAwards 2025! 🎉
We are delighted to award…
… Pascal Wang and the Buchholz Lab (TU Dresden)
… Maria Silvia Roman Azcona and the Mussolino Lab (University of Freiburg)
… Lasse Neukirch and Silke Uhrig-Schmidt (DKFZ)
Congratulations to all! 👏
#DGGTeV
Visit our booth in the Registration Hall & test your skills in our daily Pipetting Game 🧪
Beat our board member Prof. Anja Ehrhardt!
Our game ist open:
📅 Every day
⏰ 10:30 AM – 05:30 PM
Each day’s top pipetter will get a prize at the end of the day from our Microbes plushies🦠
#ESGCT2025 #DGGZTeV
We are proud to see young German researchers presenting their exciting work at ESGCT:
🎤 Presentations:
Akshatha Shivaraj
Kerstin Geiger
🖼️ Posters:
Stylianos Michalakis
Fabian John
Muhammed Burak Demircan
Maren Soldierer
Alexandre Trubert
Melissa Whitehead
#DGGTeV #GeneTherapy #ESGCT2025
graphical abstract of the manuscript
Congratulations!
The #DGGTeV awards J. Geilenkeuser and N. Armbrust at @tum.de and @www.helmholtz-munich.de for their work on Engineered Nucleocytosolic Vehicles for Loading Programmable Editors (ENVLPE) to deliver gene editors into target cells.
more here: https://www.dg-gt.de/paper-of-the-quarter
a woman in a white coat
The #DGGTeV is delighted to present Ana-Maria Nitulescu at @bihatcharite.bsky.social with one of our #PaperoftheQuarter #Awards #2025Q2 for her work to improve KI efficiency for non-viral CAR T cell production:
https://www.dg-gt.de/paper-of-the-quarter https://www.dg-gt.de/paper-of-the-quarter
Graphical Abstract of the paper
Congratulations!
The #DGGTeV proudly presents Elham Adabi at @pei.de the #PaperoftheQuarterAward #25Q1 2/3
for her outstanding work focusing on the enhancement of CAR T cell manufacturing by modulating the MAPK/ERK pathway.
details here: https://www.dg-gt.de/paper-of-the-quarter
#PoQ #GeneTherapy
Paper Title "Depletion of alloreactive B cells by drug-resistant chimeric alloantigen receptor T cells to prevent transplant rejection"
The #DGGTeV is delighted to present A.C. Dragon from the Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Transplant Engineering at MHH with a #PoQ Award #2025Q1 3/3 for her work in transplantation to deplete alloreactive B cells using drug-resistant CAR T cells.
https://www.dg-gt.de/paper-of-the-quarter
graphical abstract: diagram illustrating cell development and subtype features
The first round of the #DGGTeV #PaperoftheQuarterAwards 2025 is here:
We are delighted to award Franziska Baatz at MHH for her work to investigate and target BCL11B in CAR-engineered lymphoid progenitors.
Read more here: https://www.dg-gt.de/paper-of-the-quarter
#PoQ #2025Q1 1/3
Zi Xi Dai
Highlighst of the 2025 ThemeDay!
Last but not least of our awardees:
Congratulations to Zi Xi Dai from @tudresden.bsky.social receiving the best poster award (2/2) at the #DGGTeV #Themeday2025 for presenting his work developing Designer-Recombinase induced Gene Replacement (DRiGR)
#Recombinase
Award elegibility criteria and submission guide for the PoQ
Last chance to submit your recent #GeneTherapy manuscript for the #DGGTeV Paper of the quarter award! #PoQ #2025Q1
Deadline is the 10th of April.
Submission: https://www.dg-gt.de/poq-submission
Organizers from DGGTeV, VfA and BIH at the venue
This morning the DGGTeV and the VfA are hosting a joint parliamentary breakfast to discuss the future of #GeneTherapy and #CellTherapy in #Germany with representatives of the German parliament and give stakeholders from academia and industry an opportunity to share insights and voice opinions
Ina Luksch and DGGTeV President Prof. Zoltan Ivicz on stage at the 2025 Themeday
Highlights of the 2025 #DGGTeV #Themeday:
Congratulations!
Ina Luksch @tum.de is awarded for the best oral presentation at the DGGTeV Themeday presenting her work on AAV-mediated #GeneTherapy in a porcine model of #DuchenneMuscularDystrophy
Masako Kaufmann and her certificate with the awarded poster on universal CAST-Seq
Highlighst of the 2025 ThemeDay:
Congratulations to Masako Kaufmann @uni-freiburg.de for the best poster at the #DGGTeV #Themeday2025 for her work on #BaseEditing #offtarget detection via universal CAST-Seq
upcoming Events
Thank you for a wonderful #ThemeDay25 in Dresden
and see you at the DGGT/ESGCT Springschool in Postdam,
the 32. ESGCT Congress this fall in Sevilla,
or next year at the joint #DGGTeV and 33. #ESGCT Congress 2026 in Hamburg
https://www.esgct.eu/upcoming-events
a group of young people sitting in chairs in front of a presentation on genome editing
The #DGGTeV is invested into the future of #GeneTherapy #Research in Germany
Therefore, local schools were invited today to join Session 5 discussing the ethics of #GenomeEditing with Karla Axel and Klaus Tanner from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
Details here: https://bit.ly/3FlRPLM
#DGGTeV #ThemeDay
unfortunately Kathleen Collins was indisposed on short notice - but we recommend the R2 paper for everyone interested doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Session 4 Programme DGGT Themeday 2025
Session 4 focuses on novel gene editing technologies and their applications
with scientists from @uni-freiburg.de @fraunhofer.bsky.social Seamless Therapeutics and @upf.edu
presenting their work.
Details here:
https://www.dg-gt.de/event-programme
#GeneTherapy
#DGGTeV
#ThemeDay25
Hernessing eukaryotic retroelement proteins for transgene insertion into human safe-harbor loci
Starting the 2. day of the #DGGTeV #GenomeEditing #ThemeDay with a highlight:
the Keynote Lecture of Kathleen Collins from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social on retroelement proteins for #GeneTherapy
Science never sleeps - but sometimes it is better discussed over a few drinks.
PhD Students, PIs and Industry gathering to promote #GeneTherapy in a relaxed atmosphere.
Time for networking and discussions, for building collaborations and lasting friendships at the #DGGTeV #DinnerEvent at Pulverturm
a group of people standing in a room with a model of buildings
The first day of the 2025 #DGGTeV #GenomeEditing #ThemeDay is concluded with a tour of the German Hygiene Museum Dresden to revisit past breakthroughs and find inspiration in the dedication to science and health.
See you tomorrow for the Keynote of Kathleen Collins @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Session 3 is all about the clinical applications
@uniregensburg.bsky.social, MHH, Uni Tübingen, @goetheuni.bsky.social, @tum.de
present current challenges and novel solutions.
#DGGTeV
Session 2 focuses on #DELIVERY
How to get the tools you need to the correct compartment at the correct time efficiently?
Scientist from @unileipzig.bsky.social Pantherna, MHH, AkribionT. and Charité
provide insights.
More details here:
https://bit.ly/41FywEG
Programme of Session 1: CRISPR Screens
Session 1 today focuses on CRISPR-Screens
featuring talks from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, @ethzurich.bsky.social, @tum.de, Uni WittenHerdecke and @cytiva.bsky.social
Check the online programme for more here:
https://www.dg-gt.de/currentmeeting
#GeneTherapy
#DGGTeV
#GenomeEditing
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A warm welcome from local organizers @buchholzlab.bsky.social and our President Zoltan Ivicz to the 2025 Theme Day of the #DGGTeV on Genome Editing at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden
We are looking forward to 2 days packed with great talks, interesting posters, and lively discussions!
Great chance to enhance your research and clinical skills❗
Apply now for a @dkfz.bsky.social CLINICIAN SCIENTIST FELLOWSHIP 👉 https://linke.to/DKFZClinicianScientistFellowships2025
@gustaveroussy.fr@nkinl.bsky.social@ki.se
@nct-heidelberg.bsky.social@crukcamcentre.bsky.social@vhio.bsky.social
E: More than you can imagine. Ava from Australia with her mother Tammie. Ava has a rare metabolic disease. Create awareness and inspire change for people with rare diseases, their families, loved ones and care takers. More on rarediseaseday.org or scan the QR code
#RareStories and #RarePersons :
Each Person is rare and valuable - regardless if the disease is rare
#Rarediseaseday
#GeneTherapy
#DGGZTeV
E: More than you can imagine. Algas from Ruanda has a rare neurological disorder due to a genetic cause. Create awareness and inspire change for people with rare diseases, their families, loved ones and care takers. More on rarediseaseday.org or scan the QR code
#RareStories and #RarePersons :
Each Person is rare and valuable - regardless if the disease is rare
#Rarediseaseday
#GeneTherapy
#DGGZTeV
E: More than you can imagine. Charo from Argentina has a rare neurological disorder. Create awareness and inspire change for people with rare diseases, their families, loved ones and care takers. More on rarediseaseday.org or scan the QR code
#RareStories and #RarePersons :
Each Person is rare and valuable - regardless if the disease is rare
#Rarediseaseday
#GeneTherapy
#DGGZTeV
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