Institute of Molecular Biomedicine

IMBM is a research institute of the Faculty of Medicine at the Comenius University in Slovakia. We are located in Bratislava, both in the heart of the capital’s old town at Sasinkova 4, and in the Biomedical research center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences at Dubravská street 9.  The mission of IMBM is simple: to do (and enjoy doing) science. As of our staff, we have a vast range of educational background – from molecular biology, biophysics, biotechnology or physiology, up to medicine. While we believe that interdisciplinarity is a key scientific value. Furthermore, our partnerships extend to collaborating with clinicians and complementary research institutes all around the globe (Aachen, Gothenburg, New York, Boston, Hradec Králové…). This is a great enrichment to our  esearch. Of course, our institute is also home for many PhD students that are trained here in experimental and laboratory medicine, as well as undergraduate and graduate students that work on their bachelor/master/doctoral thesis with us. Moreover, our teaching takes place at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Natural  Sciences of the Comenius University. Ultimately, IMBM is an institute of open-minded people, scientists, who share their devotion to science. If you share this devotion with us, apply and come join us at the Institute of Molecular Biomedicine in Bratislava.

 

News

Successful PhD defenses

We heartily congratulate our PhD students, Kritína Macáková, Barbora Gromová, and Jakub Szabó, on successfully defending their dissertations in Normal and Pathological Physiology and Neuroscience and obtaining the PhD title!

Kristína Macáková – Neutrophils in Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Barbora Gromová – Signaling pathways activated by extracellular nucleic acids in gastrointestinal tract pathology

Jakub Szabó – Anxiety and Sociability Disorders As a Result of Neuroinflammation

We wish you many more successes in your scientific and non-scientific life.

August 26, 2024

End of the Summer School of Biomedicine 2024

On the last day of the Summer School of Biomedicine, all eleven students prepared final presentations about their scientific projects and the skills they acquired with us. The discussion with colleagues took place in a friendly atmosphere.

We are glad that the students showed interest in spending part of the summer doing scientific research right here! Thank you and we look forward to next year!

August 2, 2024

Dr. Pastorek’s Lecture on DNA-Driven Inflammation at Harvard Medical School

During his internship at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Michal Pastorek gave a lecture as part of the immunology series of seminars called Immunology Think Tank BIDMC (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). The lecture was called “Unraveling DNA-driven inflammation: from NETs to nucleases”.

July 15, 2024

Science

Projects

  • APVV: APVV-22-0554 Deoxyribonuclease 1l3 in the biology of extracellular DNA
  • Comenius University Grant: UK/1091/2024 The influence of endocrine factors on the behavior of female mice with a genetic predisposition to autism spectrum disorders
  • Comenius University Grant: UK/3253/2024 Optimization of pathogen DNA enrichment from artificially infected blood samples for rapid pathogen diagnosis using whole-genome nanopore sequencing

Published papers

  • Association of vascular netosis with COVID-19 severity in asymptomatic and symptomatic patients
  • Y-box binding protein 1 in small extracellular vesicles reduces mesenchymal stem cell differentiation to osteoblasts-implications for acute myeloid leukaemia
  • Infrared Thermal Imaging during the Estrous Cycle in Adult Wistar Rats