Gediminas Drabavičius is going to defend the dissertation “Study and application of CRISPR-Cas systems” at 15 p.m. on the 16^th of March.

On Thursday, the annual reporting meeting of the community of the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) was held remotely.

On 28 January 2021, the newly elected VU LSC Council met in the first meeting.

On 12 January, a message was received that the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) had awarded a substantial grant to the researcher of Warwick University Algirdas Toleikis.

This year’s Nobel Prizes are being presented in Stockholm and Oslo this week. On Tuesday, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Anne Doudna were officially awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On this occasion, Vilnius University decided to symbolically honour Prof. Virginijus Šikšnys, a scientist who was eligible for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and deserved it for his achievements. 

On December 9, 2020, on the eve of the Nobel Prize awards ceremony Vilnius will celebrate it by honouring one of the most prominent Lithuanian pioneers in life sciences – Prof Virginijus Šikšnys – whose contributions led to important discoveries in the Nobel Prize-worthy CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Vilnius is funding a scholarship in the name of the scientist and has commissioned a sculpture for the achievements made in the life sciences field.

Lithuania made news at the largest international competition of synthetic biology iGEM held on 13–22 November. The Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM team, which has been participating in this prestigious competition for six years, won the grand prize of the competition and became the best iGEM team in the world in 2020.

Helpful information about COVID-19 situation for LSC community.

On 8 September, Director General of the elite European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Prof Edith Heard signed an agreement with Vilnius University (VU) on the establishment of a Partnership Institute in the Life Sciences Center (LSC) of VU.

Vilnius University Life Sciences Center offers a doctoral study place with a possibility to carry out a part of the research at Pompeu Fabra University.

Despite of the fact that the current semester is to be finalised remotely, Vilnius University has decided to hold traditional graduation ceremonies.

Having taken the Lithuanian Government’s decisions into account, the working group at Vilnius University, responsible for coronavirus prevention, has decided to extend the remote work period at Vilnius University up until 31 May.

While the threat of the COVID-19 infection remains, the University, in line with the decisions made by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, has decided to extend the deadline for conducting work remotely via on-line measures until 11 May (inclusive) with a possibility to extend this deadline as well if needed.