Description
Determine which delivery and pegRNA designs make in-vivo prime editing efficient enough for cell recording or therapeutic repair. Boundary domains: gene-therapy, delivery-systems. Representative papers: Engineered virus-like particles for efficient in vivo delivery of therapeutic proteins.; In vivo base editing rescues Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome in mice.; Efficient in vivo genome editing prevents hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice.
Resolution criteria
Resolution requires: (1) In vivo prime editing efficiency >=15% with <=5% off-target edits; (2) pegRNA design algorithm improving efficiency >=2-fold over random; (3) Therapeutic editing demonstrated in >=1 disease model; (4) Delivery validated for prime editor cargo (>=8kb). Deliverable: optimized pegRNA design tool + therapeutic proof-of-concept.