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At this year’s project proposal call from national research agency ARIS postdoctoral project from colleague Emanuela Senjor was selected for two-year financing. Additionally, also few project from our collaborative partners have been selected for financing.

Members of the department at congress of Slovenian biochemical society (SBD) in Portorož this September that we attended in larger number. At the congress we were very active and presented our work as oral presentations or as posters. The congress was also an excellent opportunity for networking and connecting with other researchers in the field […]

Colleagues Ana Mitrović and Janko Kos from department in collaboration with colleges from Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana and ICGEB in Trieste published the paper in journal Antiviral Research (IF = 10.103) entitled »Cathepsin inhibitors nitroxoline and its derivatives inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection«. In paper the authors demonstrated that selective cathepsin B inhibitors, such as […]

Researchers from the department prof. dr. Boris Rogelj, assist. prof. dr. Helena Motaln and young researcher Urša Čerček, together with colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands discovered change in FUS protein involved in early onset of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). By synthesizing and validating a specific detector (antibody) for the modified last amino acid of FUS […]

Join us at the mini-symposium on NMR in microbial glycobiology, which will be held on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at 10:00 a.m at the Jozef Stefan Institute, in the main Institute lecture hall, Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana. We organize this event together with prof. Anja Klančnik from Biotehnical Faculty. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a […]

Among the research achievements that were included in the Excellent in Science 2022 selection, which is carried out by the Slovenian Research Agency as part of the promotion of science, there are also articles by colleagues from the department.Among the 21 research achievements that were also selected for public presentation is the achievement of prof. […]

Boris Rogelj responded to the University of Ljubljana’s invitation to participate in the Portraits of Science exhibition. The exhibition, which is on view at the Kraków Embankment in Ljubljana until mid-January 2023, features innovative portraits of eighteen top researchers from the University of Ljubljana, as well as historical portraits of Dr. Ane Kansky, recipient of […]

Researcher from our department dr. Abida Zahirović received an award for short oral presentation “Recombinant Lactic Acid Bacteria for Therapy of Inflammatory Bowel Disease” at the international conference Targeting microbiota which took place Ocober 19-21, 2022 in Paris (https://www.microbiota-site.com/congress-news/1152-targeting-microbiota-2022-short-oral-presentation-award-2.html).Congratulation!

On friday, october 21, in Novo mesto, the 52nd Krka Prize for research was awarded to undergraduate and postgraduate students. This year, 31 young researchers were awarded, including 5, who were honored with the big Krka Prize. Dr. Tina Vida Plavec received the big Krka Prize for her doctoral dissertation “Surface display of tumor antigen […]

At this year’s project proposal call from national research agency ARRS projects form our colleagues Aleš Berlec, Boris Rogej and Jerica Sabotič were selected for three-year financing and postdoctoral project from colleague Abida Zahirović was selected for two-year financing. Additionally, also few project from our collaborative partners have been selected for financing.