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Edith De Bruycker presented her work entitled “BioID reveals that NR2E3 mediates transcriptional repression through the AP-1 complex” at the Genetics of […]

PhD fellow Manon Bouckaert presented her work on retinal organoid differentiation at a seminar on iPSC modeling from the Department of Biomolecular Medicine. 

Frauke Coppieters, Kris Gevaert and Bart Leroy received the PRPH2 and associated retinal diseases (PARD) award  from the Foundation Fighting Blindness (US) for their research project […]

Check out our new paper published in Stem Cell Research: “Generation of two iPSC lines (UGENTi003 and UGENTi004) from patients with intermediate rod-cone […]

Edith De Bruycker presented her work entitled “Unravelling the proxisome of photoreceptor-specific nuclear receptor NR2E3 reveals a potential molecular link between transcriptional […]

Lab member Manon Bouckaert received the 2nd Best Oral Presentation Prize for her excellent presentation on a novel antisense oligonucleotide therapy at […]

TaRGeT team members Emma Delanote, Manon Bouckaert and Edith De Bruycker proudly presented their research through engaging poster sessions at the 2024 […]

Both Emma Delanote and Manon Bouckaert had an excellent oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Belgian Society of Human Genetics […]

“Multi-omics analysis in human retina uncovers ultraconserved cis-regulatory elements at rare eye disease loci.”

On February 12th, 2024, TaRGeT member Alfredo Dueñas Rey successfully defended his PhD entitled “Uncovering the role of non-coding regulatory variation in […]

“Combining a prioritization strategy and functional studies nominates 5’UTR variants underlying inherited retinal disease”

The research project of lab member Alfredo Dueñas Rey entitled “Elucidating the role of long non-coding RNA in the human retina and […]