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SU hands-on training at NIB
We are very grateful and happy to have a PhD student Maria Escrivá Conde from SU Stockholm on hands-on training at NIB. Maria came to train NIB researchers to set up the…
Read moreSeminar at NIB, 24.04.2024 “In Situ sequencing applied to cancer”
In this presentation, we will explore the methodology and significance of analyzing In Situ Sequencing (ISS) data in thecontext of colorectal cancer liver metastasis (CRCLM) and glioblastoma (GBM) samples. ISS offers a…
Read moreCapsule of Oppurtunity
Iza Rozman, a young researcher at National Institute of Biology (NIB) gave on 11th of April 2024 an oral presentation to graduate and postgraduate students at the Faculty of Pharmacy about the…
Read more2nd General Assembly meeting
The General Assembly met online on 15th of April 2024, focusing on the interim progress report and the upcoming technical review meeting. Members of the General Assembly discussed the upcoming progress report…
Read moreInfo Day for the students of the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana.
Exciting day at the National Institute of Biology! Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, as part of the EU CutCancer_twinning project, hosted an insightful CutCancer Info Day for the talented students…
Read moreSINGLE CELL & SPATIAL DISCOVERY SYMPOSIUM
𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥 & 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 was co-organised by Labena Slovenia & 10x Genomics and was a highly engaging event attended by over 120 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 and well 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 200 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞, both…
Read moreSCIENCE FOR ALL – PRESENTATIONS OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF SMUL MEMBERS, Barbara Breznik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyDFLCPcysw&t=3621s Barbara Breznik gave an oral presentation to wider audience entitled “How understanding and modeling tumor ecosystems leads to new knowledge about cancer treatment”. She presented current knowledge of tumor ecosystem and…
Read moreOfficial opening of the Biotechnological Hub of the National Institute of Biology and the Zei Awards
On 2nd of February 2024 the National Institute of Biology (NIB) officially opened the new Biotechnological Hub (BTS-NIB). BTS-NIB is an extremely important research infrastructure hub that represents a major milestone in…
Read moreWorkshop on confocal microscopy
The National Institute of Biology hosted a Three-Day Confocal Microscopy Workshop: Theory Meets Hands-On Learning with Assist. Prof. Miloš Vittori. Participants from the Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, involved in…
Read moreNIB staff exchange and training at Amsterdam UMC
From 12 to 14 December 2023, we continued to build excellence in the support services of the National Institute of Biology (NIB) when three colleagues from the corporate services (two from the…
Read moreShort visit Swansea University at NIB
Delegation from Swansea University, UK, visits the National Institute of Biology as part of the HEU CutCancer project From 14 to 16 November, the National Institute of Biology (NIB) hosted a delegation…
Read moreGeneral Assembly meeting
The General Assembly meeting on 10 November 2023 brought together representatives from all project partners. The aim of the online meeting was to assess the collective progress made so far and to…
Read more1st Annual CutCancer meeting
As the first year of the project implementation is coming to an end, the first Annual Project Meeting was held via Zoom on 10 November 2023 to review the work done so…
Read moreResearch & Innovation Transforming European Healthcare
“If we don’t speak up, they will not hear!” We were very honoured and grateful to present our CutCancer Project and our research done at NIB (National Institute of Biology), at Research…
Read moreSummer School for In Situ Sequencing profiling of brain tumours
Tumours are complex mixture of a heterogeneous population of cells that possess distinct genetic, morphological, and phenotypic profiles, which can affect tumour development and therapeutic resistance. The success of cancer treatments relies…
Read moreIntensive and individual hands-on training of PhD student Sofie Koomen from VUmc at NIB
Dr. Van Maldegem from VUmc is one of the pioneers in using and developing Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) method for cancer research. IMC enables detailed and contextual characterisation of protein expression and is…
Read moreOral presentation at the INTERNATIONAL PATHOLOGY CONFERENCE OF THE „VICTOR BABEȘ” INSTITUTE
International Conference on Pathology of the Victor Babeș Institute took place at the the Institute, Splaiul Independeței 99-101, Bucharest, between November 2-4, 2022. The conference covered topis of cellular and molecular pathology,…
Read moreVisit at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
We visited Karolinska Institutet and Lewensohn/Viktorsson team and their research facility on a sunny October day. Metka and Barbara presented CutCancer project and their research on “Personalized glioblastoma model for standard and…
Read more»Air protection 2023« conference
Martina Štampar, PhD, gave an oral presentation entitled “Hepatic 3D Cell Model – A Sensitive Approach for Determining the Adverse (Geno)toxic Activity of Air Pollutants.” She summarized research work on benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P),…
Read moreNIB opens the door four young students
We are always investing in the product of research, but we have to invest also in the future researchers themselves. NIB (National Institute of Biology) opened the door to more than 550…
Read moreRound table (26.09.2023): ” World Cancer Research Day at NIB”
On World Cancer Research Day, the National Institute of Biology hosted a lecture and a discussion about new technologies that will increase the understanding of cancer as part of the CutCancer project…
Read moreDogodek (26.09.2023): Z novimi tehnologijami do boljšega razumevanja in novih možnosti zdravljenja raka
Program 14.00 – 14.05 Uvodni pozdrav prof. dr. Maje Ravnikar, direktorice NIB 14.05 – 14.10 Predstavitev evropskega projekta CutCancer, izr. prof. dr. Bojana Žegura 14.10 – 14.25 Uvodno predavanje…
Read moreHands-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.…
Read moreToxLearn4EU 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…
Read moreExpert 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…
Read moreExpert 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…
Read moreStaff exchange and training of NIB at Swansea University
The staff from the NIB Project Office, the Technology Transfer Office, the Public Relations Office, the Accountancy Department and the Human Resource Office attended the four-day training to gain new knowledge and…
Read moreExploring the Frontiers of Cancer Immunotherapy: From Models to Breakthroughs
Barbara Breznik, PhD, gave oral presentation entitled Personalized glioblastoma models for immunotherapy research. She summarized research work on personalize glioblastoma models that have been established at NIB to explore glioblastoma and therapeutic…
Read moreNews in the field of radiotherapy and radiobiology: from research to the clinic
The aim of the conference was to give an overview of the research being carried out in Slovenia in the field of radiotherapy and radiobiology. Clinical and preclinical research in the field…
Read moreInfoday Horizon Europe Opportunities for Danube Countries
Bojana Žegura, PhD, presented the story of the successful Twinning application "Twinning for excellence to strategically advance research in carcinogenesis and cancer (CutCancer)". She explained what the Twinning project is about, what…
Read moreTC3R Seminar Series-invited talk
Barbara Breznik from NIB gave an invited talk as part of TC3R Seminar Series at the Texas Tech University, USA. She summarized the work on new advanced 3D tumor models for cancer…
Read moreLecture for students on tumor microenvironment and its modelling in the laboratory
Lecture within subject “Biochemistry of cancer initiation and progression”, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana
Read moreResearch Data Management Roadshow meeting
Manaï Meriem, Research Data management (RDM) Specialist and Vlainic Elize, Research Data Management Consultant presented research data management (RDM) at VUmc, which aims to control the entire data management process along the…
Read moreKick-off meeting
The official Kick-off Meeting of the CutCancer project was held on February 24th. The project coordinator NIB organised it virtually via Zoom Meeting platform. In addition to extensive participation of the involved…
Read morePhi Zeta Research Day
Our recent findings on new cancer vulnerabilities were presented at Research day at Texas Tech University in Amarillo, Texas, USA. Dr. Barbara Breznik gave a talk on advanced 3-dimensional cancer models and…
Read moreCutCancer technical meeting
Online meeting with all CutCancer partners was dedicated to technical obligations needed to start the project on 1st of January 2023. Technical guidelines for better experience, prepared by the coordinator were addressed.…
Read moreBiochemistry of Cancer
The overarching aim of CutCancer is to improve the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in the field of 3D in vitro cancer research at the National Institute of Biology, Slovenia, through access…
Read moreDiscover More About the Project
The overarching aim of CutCancer is to improve the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in the field of 3D in vitro cancer research at the National Institute of Biology, Slovenia.