1.

Zois Award for outsanding achievements in the field of signal transduction by proteases to prof. dr. Boris Turk

The highest scientific award in Republic of Slovenia.

E.01 National awards

2.

election of Prof. dr. Boris Turk for the President of International Proteolysis Society

To become president of the most important society in the field is an honour and a major recognition for an individual. It is also a major international promotion for Slovenia.

D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees

3.

Prof. dr. Vito Turk as Guest editor of a special issue of the journal Biochim Biophys Acta

Prof. Vito Turk was serving as a Guest Editor of a special issue of BBA, published in honour of the Nobel prize winner Christian de Duve and 60 years of discovery of lysosome. In this issue more than 20 papers from the most prominent people in the field were published, including another Nobel laureate, Aaron Ciechanover. This is a real honour also for our group.

C.03 Guest-associated editor