New ones in, old ones out!

It its that time of the year that first students of this semester are done and finishing their lab work, like Heinileena. And at the same time, new ones are coming in, like Amandine from France, who will be accompanied by other 2 French student, Julie and Lucie next week. Anyway, even though it is always nice to get new fresh energy into the team, it is at the same time a bit sad to say goodbyes for those who are leaving. Once again, we are so grateful for Heinileena for her efforts with cysteine-prodrugs, which by the way were extremely difficult to synthesize and even more difficult to purify. But at the end, she was able to obtain couple of prodrugs that we can now study further. Somehow, I'm expecting that these prodrugs are not any easier to analyze... we will see!