Congratulations to Greta Jarockytė, who has defended her thesis "Investigation of the application of theranostic nanoparticles in oncological diagnostics and therapy" for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biophysics. Scientific supervisor - Prof. Habil. Dr Ričardas Rotomskis.

Milda Narmontė defended her dissertation at the VU Life Sciences Center. Her thesis is entitled "High-resolution detection of genomic 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and its application to epigenetic studies of human diseases" for the degree of PhD in Biochemistry. Scientific supervisor - Dr Edita Kriukienė.

Good news about Greta Leonavičienė, a young researcher at the VU Life Sciences Center: the first is that her research paper has won the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (LAS) Young Scientists and PhD Students' Research Paper Competition and a prize; the other is that she has succesfully defended her doctoral thesis!

This year, two young researchers from the VU LSC have been awarded prizes in the annual competition of Young Scientists and Doctoral Students of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (LAS).

This month, a delegation of Lithuanian researchers visited Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), other research institutions and science and technology centres to discuss bilateral cooperation and its development.

The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences has awarded the Lithuanian Science Prize to Prof. Linas Mažutis of the VU Life Sciences Center for his work 'Microfluidic Technologies in Single Cell and Biomolecule Research (2007–2021)'.

Dr Gytis Dudas, a virus researcher at Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC), is one of the two young researchers at the VU LSC and one of 11 European researchers who received a grant from the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) to set up their own laboratory this year. This type of grant is awarded to young researchers, especially those who return to their home country to work for science. Dr Dudas will set up his laboratory as part of the project "Characterising metagenomically discovered orthomyxovirus surface proteins".

Dr Patrick Pausch, research professor and group leader at the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC)-European Molecular Biology Laboratory Partnership Institute (EMBL PI), has received a substantial European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Installation Grant (IG). According to Dr Pausch, the installation grant scheme is invaluable for young scientists establishing their laboratories.

Today EMBO has announced the 11 winners of the 2023 EMBO Installation Grants, which provide multi-year funding for principal investigators to establish and grow their groups in participating countries. Among them, there are 2 Lithuanian representatives from Vilnius University (VU) Life Sciences Center (LSC): Dr Gytis Dudas (on the left, in the photo) and Dr Patrick Pausch. This EMBO funding scheme provides researchers in participating countries with several years of funding to set up and develop research teams.

Two scientists from the Life Sciences Centre (LSC) were awarded the Rector's Prizes at festive meeting of the VU Senate. The award was also presented to the best LSC lecturer. 

Closing the old year and welcoming the New Year, the Vilnius University community chooses the best lecturers of the year. This year, Dr Radvilė Rimgailė-Voicik was elected the best lecturer of the Department of Botany and Genetics of the Institute of Biosciences, VU Life Sciences Center.

The latest subject rankings of the country’s educational institutions were published today. Vilnius University (VU) was the best performer in the ranking, as it is every year – the University was declared the leader in more than one-third of the evaluated bachelor’s degree programmes and almost half of the master’s degree programmes. In terms of the total sum of all indicators, the best-ranked bachelor’s degree programmes at Vilnius University are Computer Science (93.7), Genetics (89.8), and Journalism (89.6). In the category of master’s studies, VU’s highest-ranked master’s programmes are Physics (93.1), Chemistry (92.6), Biochemistry (91.6), and Education (89.2).

Dr Rokas Grigaitis is one of the two young scientists from the VU LSC who have received the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) scholarship.