We proudly congratulate our group member, Kamilla Ujvári, for earning 2nd place in the Analytical Chemistry Section at the national conference of the 37th OTDK! A truly commendable achievement!

We had a wonderful time on March 21st, hiking from Normafa through János Hill to the Kaán Károly Lookout in Hárshegy, finishing with a traditional meal at Szépjuhászné restaurant.

Our research group member (Peptide-Based Vaccines), Tamás Krisztián Kőműves won 1st place at the Semmelweis University Students’ Scientific Conference and was qualified for the national round (OTDK). Tamás' topic is on the antimicrobial activity of cationic lipopeptides.

Congratulations for the great success!

Our new paper, "Categorizing interaction modes of antimicrobial peptides with extracellular vesicles: Disruption, membrane trespassing, and clearance of the protein corona" has been published recently in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science.

We are delighted to welcome Zineb Medjeldi to the Research Group for Biolomolecular Self-Assembly. We wish her a wonderful stay in Hungary and much success in her research endeavors.

Congratulations to our MSc. student Kamilla Ujvári for winning 3rd place at the TDK (Students’ Scientific Association) conference organized by the Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Budapest University for Technology and Economics.

On 14 November, our student Chiara Bellini successfully defended her PhD thesis with summa cum laude. Chiara has developed peptide-based vaccines against tuberculosis under the supervision of Kata Horváti. Her PhD work was carried out in the framework of the EU H2020 MCSA-ITN programme, as a participant of the BactiVax project. During her training she had the opportunity to do a secondment at the CycloLab Ltd. under the supervision of István Puskás.

We are pleased to share our research article, “In situ Captured Antibacterial Action of Membrane-Incising Peptide Lamellae,” published in Nature Communications, has been featured in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences'. Featured Publications for August 2024! You can check it out here: https://mta.hu/vii-osztaly-a-honap-publikacioja/2024-augusztusi-honap-kiemelt-publikacioi-113877

Our new paper, "Mapping Of The Lipid-Binding Regions Of The Antifungal Protein NFAP2 By Exploiting Model Membranes" has been published recently in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. The manuscript discusses the membrane binding ability of an antifungal peptide, called NFAP2 towards different lipid bilayers.

Our recently published paper in Nature Communications started to gather domestic media coverage: