ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Unravelling extracellular vesicle heterogeneity to inspire improved therapeutic RNA delivery systems
The growing number of classes of RNA therapeutics, including siRNA, mRNA and RNA components of the CRISPR/Cas9 machinery, hold the promise of providing new treatment possibilities for almost any disease. However, these interventions require delivery of therapeutic RNA to their final intracellular targets in diseased cells, and delivery efficiency by current RNA nanocarriers is unsatisfactory. Endogenous nanoparticles called extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as promising novel RNA delivery systems, due to their intrinsic ability to transfer biological cargo between cells in a selective manner. In fact, with my ERC StG, I have shown that EVs outperform synthetic carriers in terms of…
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