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ArticleMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids2026

Design and development of lipid nanoparticle formulations for brain gene therapy.

Sarah B Thomson, Alissandra de Moura Gomes, Pardis Kazemian, Daniel Z Kurek, Jayesh A Kulkarni, Fariba Sadaati, Pamela K Wagner, Terri L Petkau, Marco A Ciufolini, Pieter R Cullis and 1 more

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Article in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Sarah B ThomsonUniversity of British Columbia, Department of Medical Genetics, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
Alissandra de Moura GomesUniversity of British Columbia, Department of Medical Genetics, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
Pardis KazemianUniversity of British Columbia, Department of Medical Genetics, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
Daniel Z KurekNanoVation Therapeutics, 2665 East Mall, 2 Floor, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Jayesh A KulkarniNanoVation Therapeutics, 2665 East Mall, 2 Floor, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Fariba SadaatiNanoVation Therapeutics, 2665 East Mall, 2 Floor, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Pamela K WagnerUniversity of British Columbia, Department of Medical Genetics, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
Terri L PetkauUniversity of British Columbia, Department of Medical Genetics, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
Marco A CiufoliniNanoVation Therapeutics, 2665 East Mall, 2 Floor, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Pieter R CullisUniversity of British Columbia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Blair R LeavittUniversity of British Columbia, Department of Medical Genetics, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many genetic neurological diseases are caused by toxic gain-of-function of a mutant protein or loss-of-function of a wild-type protein. Treatment of these disorders may be feasible using gene therapy, which requires delivering therapeutic agents to affected brain regions and cells. Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have significant potential for this purpose: the clinical safety and efficacy of LNP systems is well-established, and neurons are amenable to LNP-mediated transfection. To adapt LNP technology for brain gene therapy applications, we iteratively designed LNPs to deliver nucleic acids to

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brain gene therapylipid nanoparticlesMT: delivery strategiesnanomedicineneurodegenerative diseaseneurological disease

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PMID42597608
PMCPMC13469846

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