Oncolytic virus

An oncolytic virus is a virus that selectively replicates and kills cancer cells.

Lentiviral vectors

A common vehicle used extensively in gene therapy is the lentiviral vector (LV). The LV is a replication-defective viral vector, generated from HEK293T cells (human embryonic kidney cells) after the transfection with plasmids (DNA molecules) dedicated for the assembling of particular viral parts (envelope, capsid, nucleoproteins, viral RNA, reverse transcriptase, integrase etc). The purified particles […]

Colin Clarke to speak at the MSCA 2020 Conference

Our Coordinator, Dr. Colin Clarke, will act as an expert at the MSCA 2020 – Achieving more together on 29 September 2020. The conference has chosen two main topics: “Synergies between the MSCA and European Universities Initiative” and “Supervision of the MSCA and beyond”. Colin will contribute as an expert to the Workshop “Perspective of […]

2nd Annual Industry-Academia Network Experience

The second industry-academia networking event took place from 22 to 26 June 2020. The situation regarding COVID-19 has necessitated the STACCATO network experience to be transitioned from an in person to an online event. This had the biggest impact on the social activities that would have normally taken place after the lectures. Nevertheless, Brian and […]

Successful STACCATO check meeting

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the STACCATO check meeting with our REA Project Officer had to be held online. Despite the unique circumstances, the meeting turned out to be very successful. Our ESRs have once again shown off their high-quality presentation skills and impressed PIs and the REA Project Officer alike. The discussion about the […]

ESR Blog live

The STACCATO ESRs have started their own blog over at www.staccato-esr.eu. The blog is entirely set up and maintained by the STACCATO ESRs and will feature post about their lives as Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellows, their individual research projects and anything else that might interest the ESRs and the readers.

Successful first industry-academia networking experience

The STACCATO network has held its first industry-academia networking experience at the Coordinator NIBRT’s facilities in Dublin, Ireland. The event included scientific modules and the first BioPharma Focus Event on Recombinant Therapeutic proteins. It was also the first chance for all ESRs to meet in person and to present their individual research projects to each […]

Dates fixed for the first annual industry-academia network experience

The first annual STACCATO industry-academia network experience will take place at the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research & Training in Dublin, Ireland, from 18 – 22 November 2019. There, all of the ESRs will get to meet each other for the first time. The programme will include team building activities, the presentation of the individual […]

One PhD position still open

Whilst some of our ESRs have already started their positions and further young researchers will start soon, our partner BD is still taking applications. You can find all important information about the position and how to aply in the open positions section.

First ESRs have started

We are happy to announce that five of our ESRs have started their positions in STACCATO. Over the next months more and more ESRs will start their exciting journey in STACCATO and will work towards applying new and innovative manufacturing process development approaches for biopharmaceuticals.