Our PhD student Natália Vadovičová was awarded for her poster showing the control of AMPK kinase by the translation factor eIF4F in malignant melanoma.
The conference "XXV. Biologické dny: od nádorové biologie po precizní onkologii" took place at the beginning of September and the award for the best poster presentation won our doctoral student Ing. Natália Vadovičová from dr. Stjepan Uldrijan research group. Natália presented the poster entitled "eIF4F contributes to the control of AMPK activity in malignant melanoma", the abstract available here (Czech only). Congratulations to Natália and all the research 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.
