The SCGE Consortium is supported by the NIH Common Fund through cooperative agreements administered by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences,  NIH Office of the Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Human Genome Research Institute, and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. The consortium is managed by a trans-NIH working group representing multiple NIH Institutes and Centers. For more information about the SCGE NIH Working Group and the Common Fund, please go here.

Rodent Testing Centers for Development of Reporter Systems and Evaluation of Somatic Cell Genome Editing Tools (U42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-RM-18-012
PI Name Institution Name Title
HEANEY, JASON D (contact)
DICKINSON, MARY E
LAGOR, WILLIAM RAYMOND
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BCM-Rice resource for the analysis of somatic gene editing in mice
MURRAY, STEPHEN A (contact)
LUTZ, CATHLEEN M
JACKSON LABORATORY The Jackson Laboratory Gene Editing Testing Center (JAX-GETC)
Large Animal Testing Centers for Evaluation of Somatic Cell Genome Editing Tools (U42 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-RM-18-014
PI Name Institution Name Title
TARANTAL, ALICE F
(contact)
SEGAL, DAVID J
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Nonhuman Primate Testing Center for Evaluation of Somatic Cell Genome Editing Tools
WELLS, KEVIN
(contact
PRATHER, RANDALL
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA Swine Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) Center
Innovative Technologies to Deliver Genome Editing Machinery to Disease-relevant Cells and Tissues (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-RM-18-016
PI Name Institution Name Title
ASOKAN, ARAVIND DUKE UNIVERSITY Evolving High Potency AAV Vectors for Neuromuscular Genome Editing
CHEN, ZHENG-YI (contact)
LIU, DAVID R
XU, QIAOBING
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY Efficient in Vivo RNP-based Gene Editing in the Sensory Organ Inner Ear Using Bioreducible Lipid Nanoparticles
DEVERMAN, BENJAMIN E BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. Novel AAVs engineered for efficient and noninvasive cross-species gene editing throughout the central nervous system
GAO, GUANG-PING (contact)
ANDERSON, DANIEL G
XUE, WEN 
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL WORCESTER Develop combinatorial non-viral and viral CRISPR delivery for lung diseases
GHIRAN, IONITA CALIN  BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER Bioengineered red blood cells as extracellular vesicle-mediated delivery platforms for gene editing machinery
GONG, SHAOQIN (contact)
EMBORG, MARINA
LEVINE, JON E
ROY, SUBHOJIT
SAHA, KRISHANU
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Enabling Nanoplatforms for Targeted in vivo Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoproteins in the Brain
MCCRAY, PAUL B UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Delivery of CRISPR Ribonucleoproteins to Airway Epithelia Using Novel Amphiphilic Peptides
SALTZMAN, W. MARK (contact)
GLAZER, PETER M 
YALE UNIVERSITY Poly(amine-co-ester)s for Targeted Delivery In Vivo of Gene Editing Agents to Bone Marrow and Lung
SONTHEIMER, ERIK J (contact)
KHVOROVA, ANASTASIA
WATTS, JONATHAN K
WOLFE, SCOT A
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL WORCESTER Enhancing CRISPR Gene Editing in Somatic Tissues by Chemical Modification of Guides and Donors
Expanding the Human Genome Engineering Repertoire (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-RM-18-017
PI Name Institution Name Title
DOUDNA, JENNIFER A (contact)
BANFIELD, JILLIAN 
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY Expanding CRISPR-Cas editing technology through exploration of novel Cas proteins and DNA repair systems
EKKER, STEPHEN CARL (contact)
CLARK, KARL J
MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER Building the mitochondrial genome editing repertoire
LIU, DAVID R BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. Expanding the Scope of Base Editing
Innovative Technologies to Deliver Genome Editing Machinery to Disease-relevant Cells and Tissues (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-RM-18-023
PI Name Institution Name Title
BANKIEWICZ, KRYSTOF S (contact)
MURTHY, NIREN
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Development of a nanoparticle-based gene editing technology for neurological applications
BAO, GANG (contact)
LAGOR, WILLIAM RAYMOND
RICE UNIVERSITY Velcro AAV Vector for tissue-specific delivery of genome editing reagents with enhanced cargo capacity
CHAIKOF, ELLIOT BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER Delivery Technologies for In Vivo Genome Editing
CURIEL, DAVID TERRY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Endothelial-targeted adenovirus for organ-selective gene editing in vivo
DAHLMAN, JAMES (contact)
SANTANGELO, PHILIP J
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Highly Specific ZFN-Based HSC Gene Editing Therapies Identified By In Vivo Barcode Nanoparticle Screens And Rationally Designed Mrna
LAM, KIT S (contact)
CHENG, R.HOLLAND
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS Cell-specific nanocarrier with endocytic and endosomolytic activities for therapeutic genome editing
LEONG, KAM W COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES Focused Ultrasound-mediated Delivery of Gene-editing Elements to the Brain for Neurodegenerative Disorders
TILTON, JOHN CHRISTIAN CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY In vivo delivery of CRISPR Cas9-guide RNA nucleoprotein complexes using the nanoPOD platform
WILSON, ROSS (contact)
DOUDNA, JENNIFER A
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY Cas9 RNP delivery to immune cells in vivo via molecular targeting
YI, GUOHUA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER AT TYLER Novel CRISPR-Cas9 protein delivery to T cells in vivo by targeting CD7
ZHOU, JIANGBING YALE UNIVERSITY Novel grafted terpolymers for targeted delivery of CRISPR/Cas9- mediated precise genome editing to the brain
Expanding the Human Genome Engineering Repertoire (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-RM-18-024
PI Name Institution Name Title
GERSBACH, CHARLES A DUKE UNIVERSITY Epigenome Editing Technologies for Treating Diverse Disease
GLAZER, PETER M (contact)
LY, DANITH H
SALTZMAN, W. MARK
YALE UNIVERSITY PNA Nanoparticles for Gene Editing In Vivo