Press and Media

How do we deliver programmable editors directly into the eye? We are proud to have our doctoral research ers, Julian Geilenkeuser and Niklas Armbrust , featured on the Retina Review podcast episode, answering exactly that question.

A recent report published in EyeFox Ophthalmology News highlights our team's development of advanced delivery vehicles (ENVLPE), enabling the precise correction of defective genes. Initial in vivo  trials in mouse models of specific retinal dystrophies have shown remarkable success: following subretinal injection, treated animals regained the ability to respond to light stimuli. Publication: Geilenkeuser, Armbrust et al., 2025: Engineered nucleocytosolic vehicles for loading

Following our recent publication, the Helmholtz Munich and Technical University of Munich Newsroom has highlighted our team’s latest breakthrough in genomic engineering. The article breaks down our development of the "Exo-PE" machinery, demonstrating how our team is successfully overcoming the size limitations of traditional prime editing to safely insert long DNA sequences into non-dividing cells. Publication: D.J. J. Truong*, J. Geilenkeuser*, S.V. Wendel, J.C. Heinrich Wil