For the past couple of years, as the warm season arrived and another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ended, everyone expected it to be over soon. But so far, the pandemic has not been curbed due to insufficient herd immunity to the coronavirus. While scientists are convinced that the pandemic will eventually end.

This year's Baltic Assembly Science Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of biomedical sciences - the discovery of the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 - has been awarded to Prof. Virginijus Šikšnys.

For excellent scientific results, active science promotion and organisational activities in the autumn semester of 2021-2022, VU LSC has awarded one-time nominal scholarship to 6 students and 5 PhD students.

The VU Life Sciences Centre was visited by the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Eva Zažímalová.

On 10 November, Thermo Fisher Scientific will host its traditional annual event, the Thermo Fisher Day of Science for 11th year. This year it will be held virtually with the latest scientific presentations from a virtual audience and, most important, with an opportunity to interact, ask questions and share ideas.

The VU Life Sciences Centre was a host to the International Advisory Board, a group of world-renowned scientists whose recommendations will help world-class research gain greater international recognition.

A group of businessmen has visited Vilnius University Life Sciences Center. They were interested in possibilities to co-operate making researches in the field of life sciences.

The Lithuanian Union of Young Scientists has announced the winners of the ‘Best Dissertation 2020’ competition. The winners include two former VU GMC PhD students - Kristina Šnipaitienė and Tomas Šneideris. Congratulations!

Prof. Dr. Rūta Navakauskienė and Dr. Veronika Borutinskaitė, researchers at the Institute of Biochemistry, VU Life Sciences Center, together with their colleagues from VILNIUS TECH University, Prof. Dalius Navakauskas and Dr. Dalius Matuzevičius, have published a monograph ‘Epigenetics and Proteomics in Leukaemia - A Synergy of Experimental Biology and Computational Informatics’.

Great news reached Vilnius - the VU Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) team, named Vilnius_GMC, has won the very first and only gold medal of the iDEC 2021 (International Directed Evolution Competition). Our champions are VU LSC PhD students Jonas Juozapaitis and Lorenzo Camisi.

The prestigious scientific journal Nature has published an article entitled 'Transposon-associated TnpB is a programmable RNA-guided DNA endonuclease' by scientists from Vilnius University (VU) Life Sciences Center.

This autumn, Vilnius University Life Sciences Centre (VU LSC) celebrates its 5th anniversary. On this occasion, dedicated events will take place throughout the week of 4-8 October.

On Friday, a virtual meeting was organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania between representatives of the VU GMC and representatives of scientific and research institutions of the Republic of South Africa from the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the funding organisation) and the Medical Research Council (SAMRC).