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New members of PAN On December 3, the General Assembly of the Polish Academy of Sciences selected actual members and correspondent members of the Polish Academy of Sciences as well as members of the Academy of Young Scholars of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences are selected by the General Assembly of the […] >>

Michał Lipka awarded within the National Science Centre Preludium 20 programme We are pleased to announce that MSc. Michał Lipka has received the funding from the National Science Centre for the project titled „Atomic magnetometry with bandwidth-mismatched NOON states and spectrally-resolved single-photon detection”.  MSc. Michał Lipka is a PhD student at Quantum Optical Devices Lab (QODL), being a part of the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies. Congratulations! More information can be found at: https://ncn.gov.pl/konkursy/wyniki/2021-11-26-opus21-preludium20   […] >>

Results of OPUS and PRELUDIUM competitions. Results for the OPUS and PRELUDIUM competitions have been announced. The winners include employees of the Center of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw. – Prof. Wojciech Grochala (Laboratory of Technology of Novel Functional Materials), OPUS- CHEMCAP. Physicochemical properties and phenomena in a novel chemical capacitor setup. – Prof. Marta Szulkin (Wild Urban Evolution […] >>

Sergio Santaeufemia Sánchez, PhD became a laureate of MINIATURA 5 competition Dr. Sergio Santaeufemia Sánchez (Prof. Joanna Kargul’s laboratory) received funding for the project: “Transcriptomic studies of the extremophilic microalga Cyanidioschyzon merolae exposed to two different stressors, heavy metals and high salinity”. The call for proposals offered funding in the amount of PLN 5,000 to 50,000 for activities lasting up to 12 months. Researchers who obtained […] >>

Silvio Osella, PhD and Prof. Krzysztof Kazimierczuk received grants for their projects as part of the OPUS LAP competition The results of the OPUS 20 competition were announced for OPUS LAP applications, which planned cooperation with research teams from Germany. Financing has been given to 30 projects for a total amount of over PLN 41.2 million. Silvio Osella, PhD from the Center of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw will deal with the […] >>

Prof. Jacek Jemielity wins the FNP Prize The Foundation for Polish Science has once again awarded scholars whose research has led to breakthrough scientific achievements. This year’s laureates include prof. Jacek Jemielity from the Center of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw and prof. Cezary Cieśliński from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. Scientists received the FNP Prize […] >>

PLN 70 million for the development of mRNA technology against cancer Researchers from the University of Warsaw, as part of a consortium of Polish scientific institutions, will develop mRNA technology with high efficiency and application in anti-cancer therapies. The project was co-financed in the amount of almost 70 million zloty under the Virtual Research Institute program. The research project “Horizon of excellence in applications of matrix […] >>

Karol Łukanowski the laureate of the Lotto 65 na 65 Anniversary Scholarship Program We are pleased to inform that Mr Karol Łukanowski from the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies has become the laureate of the Lotto 65 na 65 Anniversary Scholarship Program, founded by both Totalizator Sportowy and the Halina Konopacka LOTTO Foundation. The scholarship is aiming at sixty-five students, outstanding for their knowledge,  experience and engagement in scientific projects. The purpose of […] >>

Marcin Równicki, PhD received Prime Minister’s Award  Marcin Równicki, PhD from the Biomolecular Machines Laboratory has been awarded for the work entitled “Searching for new targets and carriers for antisense oligonucleotides with antibacterial activity”. His work was focused on novel developments in research to identify new compounds with potential antimicrobial activity that would not be subject to common resistance mechanisms. For more […] >>

New Sonata grant for Łukasz M. Szewczyk, PhD Łukasz M. Szewczyk, PhD received Sonata grant from National Science Centre. The project entitled The role of the astrocytic transcription factor TCF7L2 in synapse development is a collaborative project between Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and prof.  Anna V. Molofsky, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). >>