Welcome Santosh!

We have been lucky, and we have gained a new postdoc or perhaps we can call him a senior scientist already, to our group, welcome Santosh Adla! We have tried to get funding together with Santosh for more than 4 years, and this spring we were finally lucky and Santosh received a fellowship granted by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, based on his Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) unsuccessful, but still a very good application. So congratulate Santosh! 

Of course, we are currently facing some restrictions (2 weeks' home lockdown) before we can start working at the university, but it was a good idea to come to Kuopio as soon as possible, now when the COVID-19 numbers are arising, and especially in Czech, from where Santosh arrived here. So I'm already looking forward to seeing what all we can get done during the next 2 years. At least some novel transporter-utilizing neuron-targeted compounds according to the research proposal, but I'll tell you more about them, once the projects proceed!

Other things happened during the past week: one new manuscript submitted, one manuscript received positive feedback, and by a revision, we can re-submit it, one rejected manuscript, one new submitted grant application, and one unsuccessful funding decision. Mixed feelings, as you may guess, but I must say that a pretty average performance for any scientist and I should say that we are in a good balance! :)