Exploiting ex vivo expansion and deep multiomics profiling to bring novel, efficient and safer hematopoietic stem cell gene therapies to clinical application

Project Information

X-PAND

Grant agreement ID: 101070950

DOI

10.3030/101070950

EC signature date 15 July 2022

Start date 1 October 2022

End date 31 March 2027

Funded under

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Total cost

€ 3 797 562,50

EU contribution

€ 3 797 562,50

Coordinated by

OSPEDALE SAN RAFFAELE SRL
Italy

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Peer reviewed articles (11)

p38 MAPK fuels proliferation stress and DNA damage impairing the functionality of genetically engineered hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

Author(s): Raffaella Di Micco; Lucrezia della Volpe; Roberta Vacca; Federico Midena; Teresa Tavella; Matteo Maria Naldini; Matteo Barcella; Kety Giannetti; Samuele Ferrari; Stefano Beretta; Giacomo Farina; Laura Alessandrini; Antonella Santoro; Edoardo Carsana; Angelica Varesi; Diego Gilioli; Anastasia Conti; Ivan Merelli; Bernhard Gentner; Luigi Naldini
Published in: Cell Reports Medicine, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2666-3791
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
DOI: 10.1016/J.XCRM.2024.101823

Protocol for optimizing culture conditions for ex vivo activation during CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

Author(s): Lucrezia della Volpe, Roberta Vacca, Raffaella Di Micco
Published in: STAR Protocols, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2666-1667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.XPRO.2025.103722

Ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from human mobilized peripheral blood for gene therapy applications

Author(s): Erika Zonari, Matteo Maria Naldini, Matteo Barcella, Monica Volpin, Francesca Vincenti, Giacomo Desantis, Leila Hadadi, Carolina Caserta, Ilaria Galasso, Beatrice Martini, Federico Midena, Giacomo Farina, Roberta Vacca, Francesca Tucci, Leonardo Ormoli, Ilaria Visigalli, Michela Vezzoli, Dejan Lazarevic, Ivan Merelli, Stephanie Z. Xie, John E. Dick, Raffaella Di Micco, Eugenio Montini, Bernhard Gentner
Published in: Molecular Therapy, Issue 34, 2026, ISSN 1525-0016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.YMTHE.2026.05.014

p38 MAPK inhibition safeguards genome integrity during gene editing of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

Author(s): Roberta Vacca, Lucrezia della Volpe, Nicolò Gualandi, Kohei Shiroshita, Edoardo Carsana, Kety Giannetti, Chiara Gaddoni, Fabrizio Benedicenti, Barbara Gega, Sergio Arévalo, Parinaz Zarghamian, Stefano Beretta, Maria Carmina Castiello, Chiara Brombin, Daniele Canarutto, Ivan Merelli, Toni Cathomen, Eugenio Montini, Anna Villa, Luigi Naldini, Raffaella Di Micco
Published in: Molecular Therapy, 2026, ISSN 1525-0016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.YMTHE.2026.09.024

Selection of human hematopoietic stem cells bearing the intended functional edit by transient AND-gate reporters

Author(s): Daniele Canarutto, Martina Fiumara, Vigneshwaran Venkatesan, Chiara Gaddoni, Kohei Shiroshita, Angelica Varesi, Luisa Albano, Gabriele Pelosi, Alfredo Silva, Claudia Firrito, Giulia Schiroli, Deborah Cipria, Stefano Beretta, Angelo Amabile, Anna Villa, Erika Zonari, Bernhard Gentner, Angelo Lombardo, Pietro Genovese, Samuele Ferrari, Luigi Naldini
Published in: Nature Biotechnology, 2026, ISSN 1087-0156
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41587-026-03142-Z

Genotoxic effects of base and prime editing in human hematopoietic stem cells

Author(s): Fiumara M, Ferrari S, Omer-Javed A, Beretta S, Albano L, Canarutto D, Varesi A, Gaddoni C, Brombin C, Cugnata F, Zonari E, Naldini MM, Barcella M, Gentner B, Merelli I, Naldini L.
Published in: Nature Biotechnology, 2023, ISSN 1546-1696
Publisher: Nature Biotechnology
DOI: 10.1038/s41587-023-01915-4

CRISPR-Cas9n-mediated ELANE promoter editing for gene therapy of severe congenital neutropenia

Author(s): Masoud Nasri, Malte U. Ritter, Perihan Mir, Benjamin Dannenmann, Masako M. Kaufmann, Patricia Arreba-Tutusaus, Yun Xu, Natalia Borbaran-Bravo, Maksim Klimiankou, Claudia Lengerke, Cornelia Zeidler, Toni Cathomen, Karl Welte, Julia Skokowa
Published in: Molecular Therapy, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1525-0016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.YMTHE.2024.03.037

Gene editing of NCF1 loci is associated with homologous recombination and chromosomal rearrangements

Author(s): Raimondi, Federica; Siow, Kah Mun; Wrona, Dominik; Fuster-García, Carla; Pastukhov, Oleksandr; Schmitz, Michael; Bargsten, Katja; Kissling, Lucas; Swarts, Daan C; Andrieux, Geoffroy; Cathomen, Toni; Modlich, Ute; Jinek, Martin; Siler, Ulrich; Reichenbach, Janine
Published in: Communications Biology, 2024, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.5167/UZH-263302

DNA-dependent protein kinase inhibitors PI-103 and samotolisib augment CRISPR/Cas9 knock-in efficiency in human T cells

Author(s): Emina Džafo, Morteza Hafezi, Greta Maria Paola Giordano Attianese, Patrick Reichenbach, Stephane Grillet, Hélène Garcia, Elisabetta Cribioli, Christel Voize, Stephanie Tissot, Romain Vuillefroy de Silly, George Coukos, Kirsten Scholten, Melita Irving, Bernhard Gentner
Published in: Cytotherapy, 2025, ISSN 1465-3249
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JCYT.2025.02.001

Nanoengineered 3D culture substrate enables superior persistence and polyclonal engraftment of genetically engineered hematopoietic stem cells

Author(s): Federico Midena, Laura Alessandrini, Claudio Conci, Matteo Barcella, Francesco Gazzo, Emanuela Jacchetti, Edoardo Carsana, Fabrizio Benedicenti, Roberta Vacca, Lucrezia della Volpe, Sergio Arévalo, Kety Giannetti, Dafne Barozzi, Martina Franchino, Erika Zonari, Francesca Ferrua, Giacomo Farina, Chiara Brombin, Federica Cugnata, Martina Fiumara, Teresa Tavella, Leonardo Cherubin, Federico Fraschetta, Giulio Cerullo, Roberto Osellame, Marina Radrizzani, Samuele Ferrari, Ivan Merelli, Bernhard Gentner, Cristina Scielzo, Andrea Brendolan, Luigi Naldini, Alessandro Aiuti, Eugenio Montini, Manuela T. Raimondi, Raffaella Di Micco
Published in: Cell Stem Cell, Issue 33, 2026, ISSN 1934-5909
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.STEM.2025.12.016

Donor insertion into <i>CX3CR1</i> allows epigenetic modulation of a constitutive promoter on hematopoietic stem cells and its activation upon myeloid differentiation

Author(s): Iris Ramos-Hernández; Carla Fuster-García; Araceli Aguilar-González; María L Lozano-Vinagre; Guillermo Guenechea-Amurrio; Francisco J Sanchez-Luque; Manuel A F V Gonçalves; Toni Cathomen; Pilar Muñoz; Francisco J Molina-Estévez; Francisco Martín
Published in: Nucleic Acids Research, 2025, ISSN 1362-4962
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/NAR/GKAF344