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Personalized in vitro glioblastoma models for evaluation of therapy response and resistance

Bernarda Majc a,   Anamarija Habič a,b, Marta Malavolta c, Mateja Mlinar a, Aleksander Sadikov c, Andrej Porčnik d, Jernej Mlakar Marija Skoblar Vidmar f,g,  Metka Novak a, Barbara Breznik a a Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia b Jožef Stefan Institute, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia c Faculty of Computer and Information Science University of Ljubljana, Artificial Intelligence…

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Hands-on training

Sonja Žabkar and Katarina Fras underwent three-week hands-on training at Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, Wales, where they gained new knowledge on working and handling the in vitro cell co-culture lung model. They saw how to handle the co-cultures in the inserts, such as media change, treating the co-cultures with chemicals, establishing an air-liquid interface (ALI), where the cells are apically exposed to air, harvesting, and fixing the cells for further experiments. They also managed to touch the principles of micronucleus assay with fixed cells and its analysis on the Metafer system.

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ToxLearn4EU Summer School

Within ToxLearn4EU Summer School in Zagreb (3.7. – 14.7.2023) Bojana Žegura gave a lecture on the advanced hepatic in vitro 3D cell models as a novel approach for studying genotoxic activity of chemicals and nanomaterials that was developed and characterised within the HE CutCancer project.

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Expert visit of NIB researchers to Amsterdam Medical Center, VUmc

Metka Novak and Barbara Breznik had an expert visit to Amsterdam University Medical Center, location VUmc from 4-5 July 2023. They gave scientific lecture on NIB research activities, got acquainted with Imaging Mass Cytometry technology and planned further activities on the CutCancer project. They were hosted by research group of Febe Van Mandegem at the Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology to discuss scientific collaboration.

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Patient-derived glioblastoma organoids reveal glioblastoma resistance to standard therapies

Bernarda Majc a, Anamarija Habič a,b, Marta Malavolta c, Aleksander Sadikov c, Andrej Porčnik d, Jernej Mlakar e, Tamara Lah Turnšek a, Metka Novak a, Barbara Breznik a a Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia b Jožef Stefan Institute, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia c Faculty of Computer and Information Science University…

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A three-dimensional glioblastoma model for NK cell immunotherapy research

Anamarija Habič a,b, Bernarda Majc a, Milica Perišić Nanut c, Metka Novak a, Barbara Breznik a a Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia b Jožef Stefan Institute, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia c Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Biotechnology, Ljubljana, Slovenia * Correspondence: barbara.breznik@nib.si; Tel.: + 386 (0)59 232 881 Read more

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Expert visit of NIB at Swansea University, UK

Bojana Žegura visited a project partner Shareen Doak at Swansea University Medical School. Bojana gave an oral presentation about the Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, NIB, and the research conducted within the department with the emphasize on genetic toxicology.

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