Activities

We heartily congratulate our PhD students Paulína Belvončíková a Kristína Lichá for successfully defending their dissertations in the field of Normal and Pathological Physiology and obtaining the PhD title! Doctor

Congratulations to several of our colleagues on their recent publication investigating the role of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) and extracellular DNA (ecDNA) in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). Using

We have successfully completed the 5th IMBM Summer School of Biomedicine. As is customary, the last day was marked by a friendly atmosphere of final student presentations on their acquired

We congratulate our student Tetiana Pidlypska, who received the Rector’s Award of Comenius University (CU) for her excellent diploma thesis on the topic of Neutrophil extracellular traps: bacterial capture in

Recently, an article by several of our colleagues has been published, exploring the potential relationship between gut microbiota and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in an animal model. They demonstrated that

Associate professor Michal Pastorek recently shared new insights on sepsis research with students at the IMBM Summer School of Biomedicine. His presentation highlighted the crucial molecular mechanisms and proposed therapies.

On 1 July 2025, the Institute of Molecular Biomedicine (IMBM) of the Comenius University Faculty of Medicine welcomed high school and university students to the Summer School of Biomedicine, which

Associate Professor Michal Pastorek was a guest at the 14th Annual MiniConference of PhD Students of the Centre of Experimental Medicine Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he spoke about the

We would like to congratulate our students on the successful defence of their diploma thesis at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava. From the Department of

We would like to congratulate several of our colleagues under the leadership of Associate Professor Gardlik for the publication of an outstanding article on the role of the gut microbiota

Doctor Veronika Borbély participated in the 16th FELASA 2025 Congress (Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations), for which she received a grant (E-COST-GRANT-CA20135-d9782663) under COST Action CA20135: Improving Biomedical

In early June, the 62. Congress of the European Renal Association (ERA) in Vienna (June 4-7, 2025), where doctor Alexandra Gaál Kovalčíková, presented her work on the role of neutrophil

We warmly congratulate our Doctor Barbora Gromová on her prestigious publication in the journal Cellular & Molecular Immunology, which was written during her several-month internship with Doctor Maria Serena Longhi

Recently, we were visited by seventh and eighth grade students from Libellus, a private elementary school in Bratislava, as part of their Chemistry and Biology course. An interactive workshop on

We would like to congratulate our students on the successful defence of their diploma thesis at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava: Jázmin Orsolya Takácsová from

Doctor Alexandra Gaál Kovalčíková did not miss the 46th conference this year either. 46th Meeting of the Czech Working Group for Pediatric Nephrology, where she presented her work on the

Doctors Ľubica Janovičová and Barbora Gromová participated in the 52. May Hepatology Days in Tatranská Lomnica (21-23 May 2025) where they presented results focused on extracellular DNA and DNase activity

We warmly congratulate our PhD student Andrej Feješ on his prestigious publication in the journal Cell Metabolism, which was published during his internship at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) under

Professor Peter Celec participated in the event of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) – 30 years of the Clinical Trials Unit and 15 years of the Translational Research Unit at

Several of our colleagues attended a public lecture at the Medical University of Vienna by Nobel Laureate Katalin Karikó, who has received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in

At the 6th International Meeting on Cell-Free DNA in Copenhagen, Denmark (8-9 May 2025), Professor Peter Celec presented scientific results on the topic – DNA outside cells is extracellular, but