September - the World Alzheimer's Month – is dedicated to raising awareness of this difficult and severe neurodegenerative disease that affects millions of people around the world. We would like to express our support and solidarity to all patients, families and caregivers who face the challenges of Alzheimer's disease every day. We are proud that through research conducted at our Institute we can contribute to the fight against Alzheimer's disease.

We are pleased to announce that Mossakowski Medical Research Institute was awarded funding in the NCN (National Science Centre) POLONEZ BIS 3 competition for the implementation of the research project entitled

"Study of the regenerative potential of Stem Cells from Human Exfoliated Deciduous teeth (SHED) in Alzheimer’s disease”.

The Principal Investigator of this project Leila Elyasi, PhD (Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran) will carry the project at MMRI PAS under the supervision of Michalina Wężyk, PhD from the Department of Neurogenetics and Functional Genomics of our Institute.

Congratulations and best wishes!

POLONEZ BIS 3 has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement.