Project team members were supervisers of students team from the Univ. of Ljubljana, who successfully completed research project from the field of synthetic biology. Our project presented a vaccine against bacteria, who causes gastric cancer. Our project was at the international competition (iGEM2008) held at the MIT among the six finalists and won the first place among the projects in the field of Medicine and Health and also the Grand Prize award. The media at home and abroad extensively reported on our achievement; we represented it also in the National Assemby of the Republic of Slovenia.
E.02 International awards
COBISS.SI-ID: 4066586Members of the project group contributed to build up the 5th FP European project consortium ANEPID which was aimed at development of antimicrobial compounds based on the peptide fragment of human lactoferrin. We developed several generations of peptides and lipopeptides showing substantially improved antimicrobial activity compared to the initial peptides. The patented compounds are important as potential drugs against bacterial infections as a new type of antimicrobial compounds and neutralizers of bacterial inflammation.We expect that new compounds will be interesting for future development.
F.32 International patent
COBISS.SI-ID: 3857946