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 […]
Article in Dalton Transactions
Check out our latest research published in Dalton Transactions. ‘Pyrithione-based ruthenium complexes as inhibitors of aldo–keto reductase 1C enzymes and anticancer agents’
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 […]
Back cover in Dalton Transactions
The scientific paper in Dalton Transactions co-authored by Iztok Turel with partners from the Ruđer Bošković institute, Zagreb, Croatia, headed by prof. Srećko I. Kirin has received spotlight as the editors have emphasized the importance and quality of the research results by awarding it the back cover graphic. The article by Đ. Škalamera, E. Sanders, […]
Iztok Turel finalist of ‘Mentor of the year 2015’
Mentor of the year is a nationwide contest awarded to outstanding scientists and mentors of PhD students and postdoc researchers. Among 27 nominees the Ru-team Iztok Turel has made it into the ‘Top 5’ final stage of the Mentor of the year 2015 contest together with esteemed collegues (photo link) dr. Štefan Bojnec (Faculty of […]
Articles published in Polyhedron and JIB
Our research on bioinorganic complexes of ruthenium has been published in Polyhedron and Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. Check out our work at: ‘Ruthenium complexes as inhibitors of 15-lipoxygenase-1’ and ‘Interactions of two cytotoxic organoruthenium(II) complexes with G-quadruplex’ Congratulations to first authors Katja nad Sara and many thanks to all the collaborating research teams.