Enhancing Cell Therapies With Genomic Engineering
Funds research teams that use gene and epigenome editing to engineer safer, more effective off-the-shelf cell therapies for one chosen disease area.
Enhancing Cell Therapies With Genomic Engineering is a European Commission grant that funds research teams using gene and epigenome editing to engineer safer, more effective off-the-shelf cell therapies for one chosen disease area. Applicants must build synthetic genetic circuits that act as on-off switches or "sense-and-respond" systems -- sometimes called theranostic cells -- inside the engineer…
This call funds work that engineers human stem or somatic cells, of allogeneic off-the-shelf origin, using genome and epigenome editing to fix problems like poor delivery, low persistence and weak therapeutic effect. Applicants pick one therapeutic area, from cancer to respiratory disease, and design their engineered cells around it.
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