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Flow cytometry course
As part of the CutCancer project, a Flow cytometry course for researchers and technicians was organised from 17-18. June 2025. The course was organised by Thermo Fisher Scientific and Omega. The instructors…
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Hands-on training of PhD student Simona Katrin Galun from NIB to SU
We are pleased to share that our PhD student Simona Katrin Galun has recently completed another one-month research visit to the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Sweden. The training took place…
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EEMGS 2025 congress in Bratislava
At the EEMGS 2025 congress in Bratislava (June 2–6), Bojana Žegura presented research from the CutCancer project, including an oral presentation on the genotoxicity of MFe₂O₄ magnetic nanoparticles in a 3D…
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NIB hands on training at VUMC
Tina Kolenc Milavec, a PhD student from the Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology at the National Institute of Biology (NIB), spent last two months at University Medical Center in Amsterdam,…
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Future Scientists in Action!
Last Thursday, 17th of April, our institute had the pleasure of hosting a group of enthusiastic primary school students from Ribnica for a day full of science, discovery, and fun. The visit…
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President of Portugal Visits National Institute of Biology: Strengthening Ties in Science and Innovation
At the invitation of the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr. Nataša Pirc Musar, the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, paid an official visit to Slovenia on…
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NIB Info Day for Master Students of Faculty of Pharmacy
#CutCancer – NIB Info Day for Master Students of Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Irena Mlinarič-Raščan At the National Institute of Biology (NIB), the Department…
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CutCancer Project holds 2nd Annual meeting and 3rd General Assembly meeting
The CutCancer project successfully held its 2nd Annual project meeting and 3rd General assembly meeting in an online format on 15 November 2024. The meetings focused on reviewing the progress made during…
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R Course for Non-Programmers Enhances Data Skills
From November 18 to December 11, 2024, Data Science @UL FRI – Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, organized a basic R course for non-programmers as part of the…
Read moreThe visit of representatives of the company Income Leone, d. o. o.
On December 10, 2024, representatives from the Income Leone, d. o. o. – one of the largest ice cream and chocolate manufacturing companies in Slovenia – visited the National Institute of Biology…
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The visit of Associate Professor Scott Graham from University of Auckland, New Zealand
On December 6, 2024, the National Institute of Biology was proud to welcome Associate Professor Scott Graham from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Barbara Breznik, Head of the Cancer Biology…
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Biological interaction at nanoscale
The National Institute of Biology (NIB) was proud to host researcher Dr. Marta Sendra Vega from the Department of Biotechnology and Food Sciences at the University of Burgos, Spain. As part of…
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NIB hands on training at SU
In October, our PhD student Simona Katrin Galun from the Department of genetic toxicology and cancer biology at the National institute of biology (NIB) visited Science for life laboratory in Sweden. As…
Read moreIMC workshop
The novel technology of Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) enables detailed and contextual characterisation of protein expression. IMC is a mass spectrometry-based technique that allows for the immunostaining of up to 40 markers…
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The 7th Congress titled “Challenges and traps of Tobacco Smoking and Related Products”
The Slovenian Toxicological Society organized the 7th Congress titled “Challenges and traps of Tobacco Smoking and Related Products“, held at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana. The congress focused on legislative…
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Kemomind Science Conference 2024
The Kemomind Science Conference brings together the brightest minds in biomedical and analytical sciences for a transformative experience. With a focus on cutting-edge technology and interdisciplinary collaboration, this event is designed to…
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BEST days of science: AI and advanced technologies in science, interdisciplinary professional-educational event
BEST days of science: AI and advanced technologies in science, interdisciplinary professional-educational event (https://www.best-dnevi-znanosti.si/ ), was organized by students of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and the Faculty of computer…
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NIB short visit to SciLifeLab, SU
Cancer Biology unit from NIB has visited SciLifeLab, prof. Mats Nilsson group from SU. In tha last year we have worked together on WP4; Uncovering changes in the TME after treatments using…
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NIB visits SU to present radio-resistance in brain tumours
CutCancer team has visited the group of docent dr. Lovisa Lundholm from Stockholm University, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, which is interested in biological and physical factors affecting cellular and…
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54th KRKA PRIZES
On Friday, October 18, 2024, awards were presented at Krka pharmaceutical company in Novo Mesto to young researchers for their achievements in undergraduate and postgraduate research. Among the recipients of this award…
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1. Slovenian scientific symposium on cancer research
The first Slovenian symposium on cancer research took place on October 11, 2024 at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana. The aim of the symposium was to bring together researchers, clinicians and experts…
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European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EUSAAT) 2024 congress in Linz, Austria
From 18th to 20th of September 2024, the European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EUSAAT) organized a 2024 conference in Linz, Austria. This conference takes place every two years, and it…
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SMUL Conference – The importance of knowledge and the university in society
On 7 October 2024, the Academy of Music hosted the first international conference of the University of Ljubljana Global Alumni and Associates Network (SMUL), entitled The importance of knowledge and the university…
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EEMGS congress in Rovinj September 2024
Bojana Žegura, Alja Štern, Matjaž Novak, Martina Štampar, Katja Kološa and Tim Ravnjak presented research work in the frame of CutCancer project at the EEMGS congress in Rovinj (23-27 September) in a…
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ESTIV congress in Prague June 2024
Martina Štampar presented research work at the ESTIV congress in Prague (3-6 June) in a form of poster presentation. She presented work, entitled »Hepatic 3D cell models for assessment of genotoxic effects…
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Mini symposium “Challenges in Drug Delivery”
Mini symposium was organized by Jozef Stefan Institute researcher dr. Nina Kostevšek and hear team to present the work of each researcher and form project ideas to apply together as consortium to…
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SU Visit at NIB
The National Institute of Biology was proud to host Chika Yokota, PhD, Head of Unit of the In Situ Sequencing National Facility at Stockholm University/SciLifeLab in Sweden and a researcher working…
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The visit of students from EPFL University – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
National Institute of Biology (NIB), Department of genetic toxicology and cancer biology (GEN) hosted a group of Bachelor students from EPFL University – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland. Researchers Dr.…
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Genotoxicity Workshop in Swansea
Eight participants from the National Institute of Biology (NIB) attended a three-day workshop on genotoxicity at Swansea University in June 2024, hosted by Prof. Dr. Shareen Doak. The workshop focused on sharing…
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NIB Info Day for Bachelor’s and Master’s Students in Laboratory Biomedicine of Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana
Is there something better and more satisfying than passing on knowledge to younger generations? Seeing their eyes shine while you talk about all the things you have already done and things that…
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The visit of Prof. Krzysztof Wrzesinski
National Institute of Biology was proud to welcome prof. Krzysztof Wrzesinski from 21 to 24 May 2024, co-founder and CSO of CelVivo ApS and Extraordinary Professor at Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical…
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16th Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School Student’s conference
From 29th to 31st of May 2024 the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School (IPS) Student’s conference took place. This is an annual event that aims to bring together PhD student of IPS…
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Hands-on training of PhD student Tina Kolenc Milavec from NIB to VUmc
The last two months Tina Kolenc Milavec, a PhD student from the Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology at the National Institute of Biology (NIB), spent at University Medical Center in…
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GlioBank consortium meeting at NIB
We need a little bit of all our diverse knowledge to recognize, understand and treat brain cancer so that one day we can say that we have it under control. GlioBank consortium,…
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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…
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Capsule 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…
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2nd 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…
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Info 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…
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SINGLE 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…
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Official 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…
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Workshop 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…
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NIB 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…
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Short 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…
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General 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…
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1st 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…
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Research & 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…
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SWAN Visit at NIB
The National Institute of Biology was proud to host Michael John Burgum, PhD, a researcher from Swan – Swansea University – UK. The purpose of the visit to NIB was to…
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Summer 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…
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Intensive 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…
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Oral 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,…
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Visit 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…
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»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),…
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NIB 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…
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Round 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…
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Dogodek (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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Staff 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…
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Exploring 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…
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News 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…
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Infoday 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…
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TC3R 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…
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Lecture 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
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Research 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…
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Kick-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…
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Phi 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…
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CutCancer 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.…
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Biochemistry 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…
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Discover 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.