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July 6–9, 2026 | Porto, Portugal | Sheraton Porto Hotel & Spa KEYNOTE SPEAKER Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD

Foundation For Rare Diseases (Fondation Maladies Rares, France) organises an online MOOC on gene and gene-based cell therapies for rare diseases . The course features contributions from leading U.S. and European researchers — including Alain Fischer, Heather Gray Edwards, Alessio Cantore, Zoltan Ivics, Sylvie Odent, Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina, Manuel Gonçalves, Marina Cavazzana, Allison Bradbury, Anne Galy, Chantal Pichon, Claire Booth, Jeffrey Medin , among others — as well a

ESGCT are greatly saddened by the loss of Professor Claudio Bordignon, a pioneer in the gene therapy field, and the first President of the ESGCT.

Last Thursday, the FDA approved the LAD gene therapy developed by Juan A. Bueren and Elena Almarza, in collaboration with the Adrian Thrasher team. This treatment was licensed to Rocket Pharma, who developed the clinical trial and presented it to the FDA. We believe this is terrific news for the gene therapy field and for ESGCT, as all these advances have come from ESGCT members, and the society has played a fundamental role in favouring this collaboration and in the developm

The ForTra gGmbH (the nonprofit subsidiary of the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation for research transfer) and the SPARK-BIH team of the National Strategy for Gene- and Cell-Based Therapies cordially invite you to their joint workshop on GCT in Frankfurt/Main. Join ForTra and the SPARK-BIH team of the National Strategy for Gene- and Cell-Based Therapies for an inspiring, forward-looking workshop on Gene and Cell therapy (GCT) – one of the most dynamic fields shaping t