Instruct-ERIC announces that Dr. Silke Schumacher is the new coordinator of the Instruct-ERIC Hub. She is known to the VU Life Sciences Centre community as a member of the International Advisory Board of the VU LSC and as former EMBL Director for International Relations. Dr Silke Schumacher will take up her new position on 1 March.

Nano solutions for macro problems: 5 things to know about Lithuania’s life sciences industry

As the term of office of the Director of the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) comes to an end, the Council of the VU LSC has launched an international open competition for the position of Director.

Dear Colleagues,

The beautiful Season’s Holidays are here again! For our community, this year was full of creative enthusiasm and great scientific accomplishments.

They show that the Life Sciences Center is a place where new ideas, scientific knowledge and innovations are continuously generated, and the creative community cherishing mutual respect and academic solidarity is thriving. This year witnessed another successful step in implementing the Vision of our Center – to join the ranks of the best Life Sciences centers in Europe.

I sincerely wish you all the most beautiful Holidays, and the greatest success and good health in the coming New Year!

Gintaras Valinčius
VU LSC Director

Go Vilnius and Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) have established a scholarship in the name of biochemist Professor Virginijus Šikšnys, which is awarded to students of the third (doctoral) cycle of studies for internationally recognized outstanding results of their scientific activities.

Lithuania is becoming a country where scientists will not only further develop the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool discovered by Professor Virginijus Šikšnys, but also specialise in its application in many areas of life and medical sciences. Prof. Edith Heard, Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), visited VU LSC today and discussed the wider application of gene editing, the opportunities for our scientists and students, and ways to attract international scientists. 

For the past couple of years, as the warm season arrived and another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ended, everyone expected it to be over soon. But so far, the pandemic has not been curbed due to insufficient herd immunity to the coronavirus. While scientists are convinced that the pandemic will eventually end.

This year's Baltic Assembly Science Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of biomedical sciences - the discovery of the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 - has been awarded to Prof. Virginijus Šikšnys.

For excellent scientific results, active science promotion and organisational activities in the autumn semester of 2021-2022, VU LSC has awarded one-time nominal scholarship to 6 students and 5 PhD students.

The VU Life Sciences Centre was visited by the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Eva Zažímalová.

On 10 November, Thermo Fisher Scientific will host its traditional annual event, the Thermo Fisher Day of Science for 11th year. This year it will be held virtually with the latest scientific presentations from a virtual audience and, most important, with an opportunity to interact, ask questions and share ideas.

The VU Life Sciences Centre was a host to the International Advisory Board, a group of world-renowned scientists whose recommendations will help world-class research gain greater international recognition.

A group of businessmen has visited Vilnius University Life Sciences Center. They were interested in possibilities to co-operate making researches in the field of life sciences.