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An invitation to a scientific mini-symposium during the CENT UW/ReMedy Council Meeting We kindly invite you to a scientific mini-symposium which will be held during the first day of ReMedy International Scientific Committee/Council of the Centre of New Technologies UW Meeting (13 – 14th May 2019). For more details please see the link: https://cent.uw.edu.pl/en/blog/remedy-international-scientific-committee-council-of-the-centre-of-new-technologies-uw-meeting-13-14th-may-2019/ >>

CeNT UW researchers receive NCN grants We are pleased to inform that the following researchers have received funding from the National Science Center as part of the MINIATURA 2 competition and will implement their projects at CeNT UW: 1) dr Renata Joanna Grzela – “The influence of intracellular conditions on the state of human decapping enzyme interactome.” 2) dr Aldona Jelińska […] >>

Paper from the Laboratory of Asymmetric Catalysis was the most-read article with Polish affiliation published in Organic Letters in 2018 The paper “N-Heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed olefination of aldehydes with vinyliodonium salts to generate α,β-unsaturated ketones” authored by CeNT UW scientists from the Laboratory of Asymmetric Catalysis has been featured in Organic Letters Global Enterprise virtual issue as the most-read article from Poland published in Organic Letters in 2018. For more information please follow the link below: […] >>

Comment to paper by Dr. K. Mohanraj, Dr. M. Wasilewski and Prof. A. Chacińska Markus Habich and Prof. Jan Riemer from the University of Cologne published a commentary in the EMBO Molecular Medicine on the discovery of a novel mechanism underlying mitochondrial diseases recently revealed by Dr. Karthik Mohanraj, Dr. Michał Wasilewski and Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska.   Please follow the link below to read the commentary: http://embomolmed.embopress.org/content/early/2019/04/03/emmm.201910441 >>

Growing cooperation beetwen UW and WUM We are proud to announce that on the 2nd of April, an agreement has been signed between the University of Warsaw and the Medical University of Warsaw to establish the cooperation and joint use of the Next Generation Sequencing Core Facility (NGS), that began operations at CeNT UW. This is a great success in the […] >>

“Hot Paper” by CeNT UW researchers in Chemistry a European Journal We would like to recommend a new article written by CeNT UW researchers form the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry which has the status of “Hot Paper” and is featured on the cover of the Chemistry a European Journal. The article is titled: “Fluorescent Turn‐On Probes for the Development of Binding and Hydrolytic Activity Assays for […] >>

Dr. Renata Solarska – the new chair of the ECS Europe Section We would like to congratulate Dr. Renata Solarska, who has been elected as the new chair of the ECS (The Electrochemical Society) Europe Section. For more information please visit: http://interface.ecsdl.org/content/28/1/64.full.pdf+html >>

We are happy to inform that the cryogenic electron microscope Glacios cryo-TEM has arrived at CeNT UW. March, 29th – Glacios cryo-TEM at CeNT UW. From the left: Dr. Tomasz Góral (CeNT UW), Labsoft representatives, Dr. Rafał Wierzchosławski (CeNT UW). >>

CeNT UW scientists received the 2019 Rector’s distinction Five Cent UW scientists have received the Rector’s distinction for their scientific and academic work. The awards were presented on March 20th, 2019 at the Kazimierzowski Palace (on the main campus of UW). Our sincere congratulations to: Prof. Konrad Banaszek Prof. Wojciech Grochala Dr. Jacek Jemielity Dr. Przemysław Malinowski Dr. Piotr Setny For more info […] >>

CeNT UW scientists discover novel mechanism of mitochondrial diseases Dr. Karthik Mohanraj, Dr. Michał Wasilewski and Prof. Agnieszka Chacińska from the Laboratory of Mitochondrial Biogenesis have discovered a novel mechanism which triggers many mitochondrial diseases. These findings shall have a great impact on introducing new strategies and treatments for patients with mitochondrial diseases. For more information please read about the results in ‘EMBO Molecular […] >>