This year has been extremely productive for neuroscientist Dr Urtė Neniškytė: she has just been announced a member of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence, she has already published important scientific research, and a few days ago, she congratulated her PhD student on defending her thesis. “It is of great importance for me to represent Lithuania, Lithuania’s neurosciences, and show that they are being successfully developed in our country,” she says.
To celebrate European Biotech Week 2023, students of the Master's degree programme in Molecular Biotechnology at VU LSC visited two biotechnology companies based in Lithuania - AB Amilina Roquette R&D Department and Bioenergy LT. Both companies are members of the Lithuanian Biotechnology Association LithuaniaBIO.
The "Life Sciences Baltics" conference took place in Vilnius last week, bringing together life science enthusiasts from more than 20countries of the world. This biennial event aimed to discuss the development of biotechnology, digital health technologies, the advancement of medicine, and the future prospects of life sciences.
Representatives of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) - Dr Emmanuel Brouillet (Head of the European and International Affairs Division of the Institute of Biology) and Dr Gilles Bonvento (Director of the Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases) - visited the Vilnius University Life Science Center.
The FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (FKNE) has announced the recruitment of the new 2023 cohort of FENS-Kavli Scholars. Dr Urtė Neniškytė, a neuroscientist at the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center, is among the 15 selected scientists.
A delegation of Academia Sinica of Taiwan has visited the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) to discuss a possible future scientific co-operation.
Research into bacterial virus protection systems has led to the development of CRISPR-Cas genome scissors, which have made Lithuanian researchers famous worldwide. “It shows how great the potential of this research is, how many undiscovered mechanisms of action there are, which may have many applications in biotechnology, molecular biology, industry and so on in the future,” says Mindaugas Zaremba, a researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology of Vilnius University's Life Sciences Center.
Artificial tissues and organs may replace natural ones, however, we cannot say when it will happen, biochemist Virginija Bukelskienė, doctor of physical sciences, says in the interview. “We will have to wait and work intensively. Especially if we are talking about complex organs”, states the researcher of the Life Sciences Center of Vilnius University.
On 24–25 May 2023, the VU Life Sciences Center hosted an international scientific conference 'Frontiers in Molecular Life Sciences' in memory of Prof. Jędrzej Śniadecki. The organisers of the conference were VU Life Sciences Center, the Lithuanian and Polish Biochemical Societies.
Today, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the wall of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport to Jędrzej Śniadecki, a physician and teacher, who was the founder of chemical science in Lithuania. In the building here, he founded and headed the first Department of Chemistry at Vilnius University (VU), from which chemistry as a separate discipline began.
VU Life Sciences Center is launching a new lifelong learning course "Molecular Medicine".
Personalized or precision medicine fundamentally changes the concept of disease control and brings more and more genetic, genomic, molecular medicine research into clinical practice. The purpose of this advanced training course is to provide doctors and other specialists with the basics of practical work in the molecular research laboratory, to familiarize them with the latest molecular diagnostic methods and their application in clinical practice.
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Information Day at the Life Sciences Center of Vilnius University introduced Lithuanian scientists to this international scientific institution and the opportunities for cooperation with it.
The VU Life Sciences Center was visited by representatives of the European Space Agency (ESA) Jennifer Ngo-Anh and Michele Iapaolo.
