For her project on the regulation of AMPK in malignant melanoma, Natália Vadovičová, a PhD student at the Dept. of Biology, was awarded again, this time at the 66th Student Scientific Conference of the FM MU.
At the 66th Student Scientific Conference of the FM MU, which took place at the beginning of November, the committee assessed Natália Vadovičová from the research group of Dr. Stjepan Uldrijan as the best in the doctoral section. Natália presented her research, which studies the regulation of the AMPK kinase in malignant melanoma.
The abstract in Czech can be found here.
Congratulations to Natália and the whole team.
A team of scientists led by the head of the research group at the Department of Biology, Nicola Silva, has made a significant achievement in research into the reduced or impaired function of the Synaptonemal complex, which may be one of the causes of sterility. The paper by an international team of authors was published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Communications in March 2025.
NICR - National Institute for Cancer Research - the largest academic oncology project in the Czech Republic has published a new episode of the Mezi buňky podcast entitled "How precision medicine is sewn".In this episode, prof. Jaroslav Štěrba, head of the Department of Pediatric Oncology at the Brno FN and Faculty of Medicine MU and NICR scientific director , and prof. Ondřej Slabý, head of the Precision Medicine Center FN Brno, head of the Translational Tumor Genomics research group at the NICR and head of the Biology department at the Faculty of Medicine MU talk about the benefits of precision medicine in oncology.
