Natália Vadovičová - a PhD student from the research group of Dr. Stjepan Uldrijan - won the award for the second best lecture at the International medical doctoral conference 2023 for the results of her dissertation focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of resistance in melanoma cells.
On the 29th-30th of November 2023, the 20th International Medical Doctoral Conference was held in the Teaching Center of the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové. A total of fifty students from 22 Czech and foreign medical faculties participated in the conference.
At the conference, Natalia presented the results of her dissertation, which describes a new non-canonical regulation of AMPK in melanoma cells. In general, the goal of this work is to clarify the molecular mechanisms that could help us overcome emerging resistance in melanoma.
In September this year, the team of Prof. Slabý launched The BabyFox project. Its primary goal is to obtain the results of rapid whole-genome sequencing (rWGS) in patients with genetic diseases in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units in the shortest possible time, within seven days at the latest.
Scientists from the Biology department at the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University discovered new mechanisms controlling the division of tumor cells while studying skin melanomas. Their findings represent an important springboard for future drug development.
