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Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Phase 2 Challenge Winners

In Phase 2, participants submitted data from studies that demonstrated delivery and editing performance as well as described their methodology, technology, and how their solution addressed the Challenge criteria. Only Phase 2 winners are eligible to participate in Phase 3.

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Winners of Phase 2

Target Area 1: Programmable Delivery System for Gene Editing

Winning Solutions $250,000 Prize

  • Exosome Engineers (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
    Editing the Genome in Any Tissue of Choice Through Programmable Milk Exosomes
  • Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    Targeted Delivery of Genome Editing Machinery to Lungs, Systemic Endothelium and Muscles
  • David R. Liu Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Tissue-Specific Targeted eVLPs Through Barcoded Lentiviral Screening and Rational Engineering
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and University of Washington
    ENTER: Elastin-based Nanoparticles for Therapeutic delivERy, Self-Assembled Protein Nanoparticles for Targeted Gene Editor Delivery
  • Ben Deverman Vector Engineering Laboratory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Engineering Receptor-Targeted AAVs with Predictable Cellular and Species Tropism

Winning Solutions $50,000 Prize

  • Columbia-Leong Oral Editing
    Oral Nonviral Gene Editing System
  • Helex, Inc.
    Programmable Lipid Nanoparticles for Targeted Genome Editing for Extra-Hepatic Targets
  • Medical College of Wisconsin and Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan)
    One System, Any Target
  • ProEdit (University of Washington)
    ProEdit: Programmable Genome Editing to Target Diverse Organ and Cell Lineages
  • Smart Gene Darts (SGD) (Case Western Reserve University)
    Smart Programmable Lipid Nanoparticle Platform for Gene Editing

Target Area 2: Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier

Winning Solutions $250,000 Prize

  • Crisaptics Trans-BBB Genome Editing Team (University of Maryland School of Medicine)
    Crisaptics Trans-BBB
  • PERCEPT (Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley)
    Chemically Engineered CRISPR Enzymes for Accessible Whole-Brain Genome Editing
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Blood-Brain Barrier-Crossing Lipid Nanoparticles for Genome Editing
  • STEP Team (Yale University)
    BRAIN TARGETED-STEP RNPs for Delivery of Genome Editing to the Brain

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Last updated on July 3, 2025