Excellent in Science 2025
The Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) marked ARIS Day 2025: Supporting Excellence on 12 November 2025. The event highlighted the strengthening of cooperation between science and industry, the field of open science, and the most prominent research achievements recognised within the Excellent in Science 2025 project. Through interactive discussions at round tables, participants learned about outstanding research accomplishments in the fields of natural sciences, engineering, medicine, biotechnology, social sciences, the humanities, and interdisciplinary research.
As part of the event, ARIS once again presented the Excellent in Science awards for 28 top achievements selected this year. Among them were four achievements from the National Institute of Chemistry—one from the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering and three from the Department of Synthetic Biology and Immunology:
- Design and understanding of efficient catalysts for CO₂ hydrogenation to ethanol on trinuclear Cu–ZSM-5 frameworks
- Connecting modular building blocks based on spectrin repeats for the creation of designed fibres and the presentation of functional domains
- Mucoadhesive slow-release films for vaccine delivery to protect against respiratory diseases
- Inflammasome research: mechanisms and applications
You can view the full overview of achievements here: Excellent in Science 2025
Read more about the event here: ARIS Day 2025
Photo Highlights:
Prof. Dr. Roman Jerala (Department of Synthetic Biology and Immunology)
Chen Chaomin (Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering)
Dr. Iva Hafner Bratkovič (Department of Synthetic Biology and Immunology)
Dr. Duško Lainšček (Department of Synthetic Biology and Immunology)
Photos: ARIS