Our group member, Reinis Svarcbahs, has spent 2 months for a research visit in Dr. Brandon Harvey’s lab in National Institute of Drug Abuse and Addiction (NIDA) facilities in Baltimore, USA. The aim of this visit was to prepare certain PREP related virus vectors and the visit turned out to be successful – we have not only the new vectors but also new constructs for PREP gene silencing.

We also got a new master’s student for our team while Saija Tiilikainen started her master’s thesis in PREP in neurodegenerative disorders lab. Welcome, we are looking forward to a good project!