3 Bachelor's thesis finished and 2 new ERASMUS student in

One thing that makes the days always busy at this time of year (including the end of the previous year) is the Bachelor's thesis in Pharmacy and their supervision. I have yearly about 3 student's for which I give the titles and then their write about. The schedule is tight, the thesis needs to be accepted in very early January, since the students will give their seminar presentations of their topic in late January, this year the presentations were already during this week. This year we had the following topics:

1. Valproic acid - something more than an antiepileptic drug?

2. Choline esterases as drug targets and drug metabolizing enzymes

3. Metabolism of amino acids in cancer - novel targets for drug development?

All the students of this year did a great job and they were really self-orientated and easy to supervise, so well done, Lura, Suvi, and Elisa! And now I have few weeks time to figure out the new titles for the next years' students, so in that perspective, the students have the whole year time to write the thesis, but in most cases, they usually start to work on it October earliest! 😊

We have also received new ERASMUS student to work in our group until next May. The plan is to synthesize couple of prodrugs under and then study their bionconversion and release rate of the parent drugs in different biological media, such as human plasma. So welcome Ines and Catarina!