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Fighting the SARS-CoV-2 Virus with Zinc Compounds
Over the past two and a half years, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has greatly affected all of our lives. In addition to the rapid development and approval of various vaccines, research has also been conducted on therapeutic options to treat the COVID-19 disease. Oral medications that patients could simply use at home are especially desirable. We […]
Krka Grand Prize
Every year the well-established Slovenian pharmaceutical company Krka opens the call for applications for the Krka Prize contest. This year a record number of 114 undergraduate and postgraduate students responded to the call and among them 5 Krka Grand Prizes for special research achievements, 25 Krka Prizes and 44 Krka Prizes with special recognition were […]
Successful end of »coronavirus« year 2020 and start of a new one in Turel group
Although coronavirus is still limiting and regulating our daily lives as well as affecting research activities, several positive things worth mentioning happened in our group in the last months of 2020. In October 2020, a new PhD student (junior researcher) Simona Gričar has started her doctoral studies under the supervision of assist. prof. Jakob Kljun. […]
Visit by prof. Lee Cronin
Professor Lee Cronin from the University of Glasgow, UK has visited our labs in May and held a lecture ‘Towards a general theory of chemical evolution’ for the students of the FKKT doctoral study programme. The national newspaper Delo has at this occasion published an interview with prof. Cronin. You can read it (in Slovenian) […]
New article in Dalton Transactions with Dean’s award
Check out the newest accepted publication of Turel group in Dalton Transactions in collaboration with our colleagues from the Faculty of Pharmacy: Clioquinol-ruthenium complex impairs tumour cell invasion by inhibiting cathepsin B activity First author Ana Mitrović has been awarded the Dean’s award for most notable scientific achievements in 2016 at the Faculty of Pharmacy […]
Visit by prof. Peter J. Sadler
Professor Peter J. Sadler from the University of Warwick, UK has visited our labs in mid-April and held a lecture fot the students of the FKKT doctoral study programme ‘Chemical Sciences’ entitled ‘The Elements od Life and Medicine’. The national newspaper Delo has in this occasion published an interview with prof. Sadler. You can read […]
Special issue of JIB in occasion of COST CM1105 meeting
The Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry is dedicating its 160th volume (July 2016) to the COST CM1105 action ‘Functional metal complexes that bind to biomolecules’. Within this issue you can find two contribitions of the Turel research group. The first contrubution is entitled ‘Interactions of two cytotoxic organoruthenium(II) complexes with G-quadruplex’ by our former team member […]
Congratulations to Sara Seršen on her PhD
The Turel group congratulates Srara Seršen on her successful defence of her PhD thesis with the title “Synthesis of novel ruthenium complexes with possible biological and catalytic properties“. We wish her all the best and continued success at her new job. .
Off to a new adventure!
After a brief return following her parental leave Sara Seršen has moved on to a new challenge. As of April 1st she is starting her new job in the pharmaceutical industry at ‘Lek d.d., a Sandoz company’. We wish her all the best and look forward to her PhD defense on April 25th. From left […]
We did it again! 2015 – A year in retrospect.
A record year again, as far as the stats go for the Turel group. Data are still coming in (and will be for some time) but we have set the bar higher for ‘Sum of times cited’ according to Web of Science (on Feb. 24th) with 381 citations in 2015. The year 2015 has been […]