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This year’s Nobel Prizes are being presented in Stockholm and Oslo this week. On Tuesday, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Anne Doudna were officially awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On this occasion, Vilnius University decided to symbolically honour prof. Virginijus Šikšnys, a scientist wh...
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry still evokes resonance not only in Lithuanian but also in the most respective foreign publications. Various world science magazines write that Prof Virginijus Šikšnys from Vilnius University (VU) should share this Nobel Prize and fame with scientists Emmanuelle C...
Professor Virginijus Šikšnys of Vilnius University will receive a prestigious award, the Kavli Prize, for the discovery of a revolutionary tool for DNA editing at a ceremony is Oslo on Tuesday.
The 2017 Novozymes Prize is being awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany, and Virginijus Šikšnys, Professor and Head of the Department of Protein–Nucleic acids Interactions at the Institute of Biotechnolo...
Lietuvių mokslininkai – pirmieji pasaulyje atrado itin tikslų ir lengvai naudojamą genomo redagavimo įrankį. Vilniaus universiteto (VU) prof. Virginijaus Šikšnio ir jo komandos atradimas buvo toks svarbus, kad netrukus pasklido po visą pasaulį ir sulaukė genetikų pripažinimo. Mokslininkui prognozuoj...
Professor Virginijus Šikšnys, biochemist of the Vilnius University's Institute of Biotechnology, has been awarded the elite Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for his remarkable contribution to the understanding of the CRISPR bacterial defence system and the revolutionary discovery that it can be adapte...
Fellows of prominent Lithuanian biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys believe the professor may be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of a gene editing tool in future years.
Virginijus Šikšnys of the Institute of Biotechnology at Vilnius University (VU) has a realistic chance of winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday, VU Rector Artūras Žukauskas said on Tuesday.
„Lūžio taško“ interviu su Vilniaus universiteto Biotechnologijos instituto profesoriumi Virginijumi Šikšniu. Svečią kalbina Aidas Puklevičius.
Vilnius University professor Virginijus Šikšnys has become the first Lithuanian scientist invited to become an Associate Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) – an association uniting and promoting excellence elite scholars of life sciences.
