€10m grant issued for gene therapy programme18 Jan 2024 10:05
Taken from LinkedIn, this notes that Genflow are involved in a programme which has just received €10m non dilutive grant funding, for a gene therapy programme from the Belgian government via Wallonia:
GT4Health, an ambitious project focussed on gene therapy and led by the 5 universities of the FWB, was selected as part of the Win4Excellence program of Wallonia!
🧬 Thanks to funding of more than 10 million euros, researchers wish to develop disruptive strategic research in gene therapy, for a holistic strengthening of Wallonia internationally and the sustainability of its value chain.
This research, coordinated by Géraldine Piel, is also a beautiful illustration of the collaborations between the academic world, accredited research centres (CER Group) and industrialists, since several companies are associated with the project: UCB, GenFlow Biosciences, Exothera and QUALIblood s.a.
🤝 For the assembly of this major project, the researchers were also able to count on the support and valuable collaboration of the KTOs of the LiEU Network.
At UMONS, the services of Cell Biology | Lionel Tafforeau & Systems, Estimation, Command and Optimisation (SECO) | Laurent Dewasme and Alain Vande Wouwer are involved. Two doctoral theses will be funded: a first in the SECO service, which will aim at the development of digital twins of AAV (adeno associated virus) production processes in order to optimise their culture conditions, and a second in co-supervision with ULB, which will focus on the development of innovative solutions to optimise genome editing in human haematopoietic stem cells (HSC), intended for gene therapy of primary immunodeficiencies.