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The Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) is a Telethon Foundation research center located in Pozzuoli (Italy) that aims to help people with rare genetic disorders across the world.
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🚀 Launch your career in advanced gene and cell therapies! 🚀

RAREFIND #MSCA-COFUND #PhD Programme opens its call for applications!

👉Know more and apply now: www.rarefind-cofund.eu

#RAREFINDPhD
🎓Are you looking to pursue a #PhD and make real impact in science?
The new RAREFIND #MSCA-COFUND PhD Program offers a unique opportunity to dive into cutting-edge #genetherapy and #celltherapy research with top-tier, interdisciplinary training across 22 leading labs at TIGEM and SR-Tiget.
October 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚀 Launch your career in advanced gene and cell therapies! 🚀

RAREFIND #MSCA-COFUND #PhD Programme opens its call for applications!

👉Know more and apply now: www.rarefind-cofund.eu

#RAREFINDPhD
October 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Join our lab dibernardo.tigem.it for the #ERC-funded project DIMERCIRCUITS at @tigem.bsky.social. We are building synthetic gene circuits to power next-generation gene and cell therapies. We are looking for candidates with a PhD in #SyntheticBiology or related. Apply by email: [email protected]
September 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📢 Global Call for Scientific Talent – Join the #FondazioneTelethon Institutes!
We're looking for exceptional scientists to join #TIGEM and #SR-Tiget, two world-class research centers at the forefront of innovation in #genetherapy, #celltherapy, #geneediting, #genomics, and #molecularmedicine.
June 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Back From #ASGCT!!!
TIGEM was pleased to take part in the ASGCT Conference 2025, where we had the opportunity to present our latest research and engage with the gene and cell therapy community!

@asgct.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🌍 Attending #ASGCT2025 in #NewOrleans?
Don’t miss this Scientific Symposium hosted by the Coalition of International Gene Therapy Societies:

📌 Clinical Trials Around the Globe
🗓️ [Today, May 16th]
🕗 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
📍 Room 293–296

#GeneTherapy #ASGCT #AAV #Retina #LiverGeneTherapy #RareDisease
May 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🎗️ It’s MPS Awareness Day.

At TIGEM, we stand with patients — especially those with MPS VI (Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome), a rare lysosomal disorder caused by ARSB gene mutations.
May 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
📢Applications for SEMM PhD program are now open! 🎉

We have 2 open positions at TIGEM in the PhD program in Systems Medicine.

Deadline: June 9th – don’t miss it!

Apply here: www.semm.it/education/ho...

#PhD #SystemsMedicine #TIGEM #SEMM #PhDOpportunity #BiomedicalResearch #CallForApplications
May 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Excited for the International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop (mSBW2025) — the only conference fully focused on mammalian synthetic biology! 🧬

Meet top experts, including @diegodibi.bsky.social, Genomic Medicine Program Coordinator at TIGEM and part of this year’s Organizing Committee.
April 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Today we mark #InternationalPompeDiseaseDay, raising awareness for this rare genetic disorder. At TIGEM, supported by #FondazioneTelethon, we combine genetics, molecular biology, clinical research, and patient advocacy to advance new therapies —
April 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Excited to share the latest work of Pastore group!
Loss of Folliculin drives liver cell damage and cholangiocarcinoma via MiT/TFE activation.

👉 Read the full article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Folliculin depletion results in liver cell damage and cholangiocarcinoma through MiT/TFE activation - Cell Death & Differentiation
Cell Death & Differentiation - Folliculin depletion results in liver cell damage and cholangiocarcinoma through MiT/TFE activation
doi.org
April 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🔬 From Sweden to Italy: @andpdb.bsky.social is bringing his expertise in Computational Structural Biology back home!

After working at #KTH (Stockholm), he’s now a Staff Scientist at TIGEM, using AI and physics-based models to design hyperactive enzymes that improve gene therapy for rare diseases.
April 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🚀 Exciting moments at #HydeParkCoroglio!

Our Prof. Alberto Auricchio, Scientific Director at Tigem in Pozzuoli, took the stage for an inspiring talk.
April 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🔬 AAV-based gene therapy for Stargardt disease is safe and effective in large animal models

A work of #IvanaTrapani and #AAVantgardeBio !!!

📄 #ScienceAdvances | doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt9354

#GeneTherapy #Ophthalmology #AAV #Stargardt #VisionResearch
Retinal gene therapy for Stargardt disease with dual AAV intein vectors is both safe and effective in large animal models
AAV-intein-based gene therapy for Stargardt disease proves to be safe and efficacious in large animal models.
doi.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🌟New Research Alert🌟

🧠 Cutting-edge neuroscience from De Leonibus' group, now in #NatureCommunications!
This study reveals how different doses of D1 dopamine agonists bidirectionally regulate memory capacity via fronto-striatal cAMP/PKA signaling in mice.
Cortico-striatal circuit mechanisms drive the effects of D1 dopamine agonists on memory capacity in mice through cAMP/PKA signalling - Nature Communications
D1 receptor agonists bidirectionally regulate working memory capacity (WMC). Here, the authors show that low doses enhance WMC by activating cAMP/PKA in the striatum, whereas high doses impair it via ...
doi.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
📣 We are hiring!!! 📣
Don't miss your chance to join TIGEM and be part of groundbreaking research! 🔬

🚨Exciting Postdoctoral Opportunity in Gene Therapy & Genome Editing! 🚨
👉 www.tigem.it/newsroom/car...

🚨Research Technician in Gene Therapy & Genome Editing🚨
👉 www.tigem.it/newsroom/car...
Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Gene Therapy and Genome Editing – Trapani Lab (TIGEM)
www.tigem.it
March 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Tigem
Here is our latest paper in @commsbio.bsky.social We reveal a two-phase TFEB nuclear shuttling driven by calcium release and mTORC1 inhibition, using microfluidics & quantitative modelling. Kudos to Iacopo Ruolo & [email protected] @tigem.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Investigation of dynamic regulation of TFEB nuclear shuttling by microfluidics and quantitative modelling - Communications Biology
Mathematical modelling and real-time microfluidics-based measurements of nuclear shuttling dynamics of the transcription factor EB (TFEB) demonstrate its biphasic nature in response to nutrient depriv...
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🚨 The latest study from #NatureCommunications, led by Pasquale Piccolo, systematically evaluated AAV-mediated liver transduction across different fibrosis models.
March 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by Tigem
I am excited to help organize #mSBW2025. I hope you can join me and my lab to explore latest advances in this field. Learn more at www.aiche.org/sbe/conferen...
March 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🌟New Research Alert🌟
🔬 Exciting findings from Galietta's group, published in #JPhysiology!
This study uncovers how the apical mucus layer alters drug efficacy in the airway epithelium, impacting CFTR inhibition in cystic fibrosis research.
📖Read here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🌟New Research Alert 🌟
🔬 We are thrilled to share a groundbreaking study by De Matteis’s group, published in #LifeScienceAlliance, which uncovers a crucial link between mitochondrial dysfunction and protein aggregation in ALS8.

📖Read the article here: www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/4/...
March 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Tigem
🚀 PhD Opportunity – NC-mTORC1 & Genetic Diseases!

Join @tigem.bsky.social & Univ. of Naples to explore Non-Canonical mTORC1 signaling in mTORopathies like BHD & TSC!
March 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🚀 Our mission 🧬

Our mission is to push scientific boundaries through cutting-edge research, innovative therapies, and training the next generation of biomedical experts.
Learn more: www.tigem.it
#Genetics #RareDiseases #MedicalResearch
March 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM