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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:

Our new paper, entitled “Optimizing lipopeptide bioactivity: The impact of non-ionic surfactant dressing” has been published recently in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis (a D1 Elsevier journal). In this manuscript we report on mixed micelles of lipopeptides and poloxamers (tri-block copolymers). 

Our new paper is featured on the front cover of a D1 journal published by the American Chemical Society. The manuscript summarizes Chiara Bellini’s PhD topic, namely the design and characterization of a multistage peptide-based vaccine platform.

Our work "In situ captured antibacterial action of membrane-incising peptide lamellae" has recently been published in Nature Communications.

The research proposals of two of our colleagues, Anikó Gaál and András Wacha were recently funded by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office in the OTKA grant scheme:

"Red blood cells derived extracellular vesicles - diagnostic and therapeutic purposes"

Congratulations to our alumna, Mayra Quemé-Peña who was awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Good luck and best wishes!