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PhD student Letícia Hudecová with a lecture: The impact of LL37 on NETs: increasing resistance, enhancing immunogenicity, and potentiating the vicious cycle won the award for the best oral presentation

PhD student Kristína Macáková talked about her scientific work in a series of interviews with Slovak scientists during the NextStep Science conference. You can watch the full interview as a

Several interviews with Slovak scientists took place during the NextStep Science conference. Here you can watch a video with doctor Veronika Borbélyová explaining what she does and her views on

Are you interested in the brain and thinking about studying for a PhD in Slovakia? Come to us, we are a great team! You will gain a lot of experience,

Several of our PhD students and undergraduate students participated in the Students Scientific Conference and the PhD Students Conference 2024, which took place on 25 April at the Faculty of

Associate professor Peter Celec gave the inaugural lecture on “Extracellular DNA, more than a clinical biomarker”.

Graduate student Karolína Gubišová and three PhD students Letícia Hudecová, Kristína Lichá and Jakub Szabó participated in the 19th RECOOP Bridges in Life Sciences Conference 2024 in Bratislava. They presented

We heartily congratulate our PhD student Katarína Kmeťová on the successful defence of her dissertation on the topic – Caffeine as an immunomodulator in sterile and infectious inflammation and obtaining

Two of our colleagues received VEGA grant funding to support their research. Specifically, associate professor Barbora Vlková will be researching sterile inflammation in birth, extracellular mitochondria and the risk of

Three medical students successfully defended their diploma theses. They had worked on different topics at our Institute. In detail: Bernhard Maximilian Schuh under the supervision of doctor Veronika Borbélyová –

PhD student Letícia Hudecová participated 20-23 March 2024 in the European Phagocyte Workshop in Visegrád, Hungary. She presented work dealing with the negative impact of cathelicidin on the vicious cycle

Once again, we were proud to be a partner of the NextStep Science Conference 2024, dedicated especially to young students and science enthusiasts. Throughout the event, you could stop by

We heartily congratulate our PhD student Kristina Licha on her notable publication in the prestigious Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, which she collaborated on in doctor Basant Kumar Thakur’s research group

Associate professor Peter Celec participated again this year at the Martin Genetic Days (14-15 March 2024) organized by Associate professor Nadezda Mišovicová and the Slovak Society of Medical Genetics. He

Congratulations to several of our colleagues, led by doctor Veronika Borbélyová, who published a paper on using infrared thermography to monitor the ocular surface to determine the estrous cycle in

An extraordinary conference on cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and its applications with an even more exceptional guest, especially Professor Dennis Lo, who discovered cfDNA, took place in Olomouc (7-8 March 2024).

PhD student Petronela Sušienková took part in the 12th International Meeting Steroids and Nervous System on 24-27 February 2024 in Torino, Italy. In the form of a poster, she presented

Did you know that female scientists constitute 70% of our Institute’s team? On February 11, they celebrate as it is declared the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

This year’s 99th Physiological Days conference was held at our Alma Mater – the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University on February 7-8, 2024. In the form of a lecture, 10

We continue to publish articles. The first article is a cross-sectional study on the associations of leukocyte, erythrocyte, and platelet counts with metabolic syndrome and its components in young individuals

We congratulate several of our PhD students, especially Andrej Feješ and Paulína Belvončíková for the first-author article, and colleagues who, under the guidance of associate professor Roman Gardlík, published an

During 2023, we managed to produce 36 new publications together with our collaborators, which makes us very happy. Here are the top 3 publications from our team: Szabó J, Mlynár