Dr Mateusz Wdowiak has been awarded a grant in the National Science Centre competition MINIATURA 9
24 06 2025
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Dr Mateusz Wdowiak from the UW’s Centre for New Technologies has been awarded a grant in the National Science Centre’s MINIATURA 9 competition. The scientist is conducting research on the selective elimination of a pathogenic bacterium. The title of his project is “The use of siderophore-peptidonucleic acid conjugates for the selective elimination of the Yersinia enterocolitica bacterium”
The scientist will conduct pilot research to broaden the research perspectives of the team led by Professor Joanna Trylska from CeNT UW, head of the Biomolecular Machines Laboratory. Antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria have become a scourge of the modern world, the fight against which requires increasingly unconventional solutions. One of the most promising is to inhibit the expression of a specific gene using a short DNA or RNA chain, says Dr Mateusz Wdowiak.