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This year’s Grants UC 2024 for PhD students were awarded to nine of our PhD students. The responsible researchers of the Grants UC 2024 are:
- Paulína Belvončíková – Role of neutrophil extracellular traps in animal models of liver injury
- Andrej Feješ – Effect of semaglutide as a new potential treatment for obesity on the behaviour of laboratory mice
- Barbora Gromová – Modulation of Th17 cell-mediated immunity by aryl hydrocarbon repressor silencing in autoimmune hepatitis
- Letícia Hudecová – Influence of neutrophil extracellular trap composition on neutrophil clearance and immunogenicity
- Monika Janíková – The role of TLR4 and TLR9 receptors in a polymicrobial model of sepsis
- Kristína Lichá – Extracellular vesicles as a prognostic marker of sepsis
- Kristína Macáková – Extracellular DNA in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis
- Tomáš Strečanský – Optimization of pathogen DNA enrichment from artificially infected blood samples for rapid pathogen diagnosis using whole genome nanopore sequencing
- Petronela Sušienková – Influence of endocrine factors on the behaviour of female mice with genetic predisposition to autism spectrum disorders
Congratulations to the responsible researchers!