Dr Piotr Szwedziak from the Center of New Technologies has won the grant of the European Molecular Biology Organization. EMBO is an international organization of over 1,800 outstanding researchers in molecular biology. This prestigious institution supports talented people in achieving the best research results.
Researchers from the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal and Turkey can apply for the EMBO Installation Grant. It is granted for a period of three to five years. Thanks to subsidies – fifty thousand euros a year – scientists create and develop laboratories in home centers.
This year, EMBO awarded nine researchers, five of whom work in Polish scientific institutions. Among the nine winners of this year’s EMBO Installation Grant is dr Piotr Szwedziak, head of the Laboratory of Structural Cell Biology at the Center of New Technologies, who, as part of the International Research Agenda ReMedy, studies archaea in the context of the evolution of cell organization.
Dr Piotr Szwedziak defended his doctoral dissertation on cell division in bacteria at the University of Cambridge, working at the Molecular Biology Laboratory at Cambridge. Before arriving at the University of Warsaw, the scientist also worked as a postdoc at the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH Zurich), where he conducted research on bacterial secretion.
He has been working at the UW at the EMBO prize since May 2019.
The full list of winners is available on the EMBO website.
