The Jubilee of PAS
This year, the Polish Academy of Sciences is celebrating its 70th anniversary. On this occasion, an avenue commemorating outstanding figures of science and an open-air exhibition dedicated to the history of the Academy were opened in the Botanical Garden of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The gathered guests also listened to a lecture on the brand of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a piano concert as well as speeches and congratulations.
Among the distinguished guests was the Marshal of the Senate, prof. Tomasz Grodzki, who said: “I came here with great joy and pride in our pearl, our jewel - the Polish Academy of Sciences, which is already 70 years old. Someone would say that this is the age when you have to retire, but I must say that I am of the opposite opinion, because the spirit of this organization is young and when you look at the achievements of institutes, the number of programs carried out, the positioning of the Polish Academy of Sciences in various classifications that cover the world of science in many ways, you can all be proud of your achievements. "
Congratulations on your anniversary, Academy!
Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3n9sTRWk1c
Full video coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OarnZZX1B3E&t=5481s
Congratulations for Prof. Z. Czernicki
Professor Zbigniew Czernicki - a long-time employee of MMRI PAS and its Director in the years 2002-2010 - was honored by the Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Medical University in Warsaw with a badge
"For merits to the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Medical University of Warsaw".
Congratulations, Professor!
OPUS 22 & SONATA 17-Congratulations
We are pleased to announce that in the competitions concluded by the National Science Center - OPUS 22 and SONATA 17
- there are 4 winners from our Institute - congratulations!
OPUS 22:
Michał Koliński, PhD – Head of the Bioinformatics Laboratory
Multi-scale method for amyloid fibril assembly using protofilament structures predicted by coarse-grained docking simulations
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and the project carried out in cooperation with the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology under the supervision of prof. Katarzyna Łukasiuk, in which MMRI PAS was represented by Michał Fiedorowicz, PhD
Glymphatic system in epilepsy pathogenesis.
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SONATA 17
Marta Aleksandrowicz, PhD MSc - theLaboratory of Experimental and Clinical Neurosurgery
Mechanisms and consequences of small cerebral blod vessels dysfunction in experimental hyponatremia in the presence of vasopressin
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Magdalena Oroń, PhD - the Laboratory of Human Disease Multiomics
Identification and therapeutic targeting of the mRNA splicing alteration mechanisms driven by gain-of-function TP53 mutants in human cancers
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About competitions:
OPUSis a call targeted at a wide audience, placing no restrictions as to the career level, degree or research experience of the principal investigator. All applicants are subject to the same evaluation criteria, which include aspects such as scientific excellence, degree of innovation of the research problem, potential impact of the project on the academic discipline and academic and research track record of the principal investigator. Under OPUS 22, the NCN received 1866 submissions with a total budget of nearly 2.3 billion PLN. Funding was awarded to 350 projects, worth nearly 500 million. The success rate was 18.76%.
SONATA 17 is addressed at researchers who hold a PhD degree conferred 2 to 7 years before the proposal submission year; its objective is to support those at the outset of their careers in innovative research. This round of the call attracted 1139 proposals with a total budget of more than 1 billion PLN. In the end, funding was awarded to 239 projects worth more than 240 million PLN. The success rate for SONATA 17 was 20.98%.
World Food Safety Day
"Safer food, better health" - the theme of this year's World Food Safety Day is to highlight the role that safe, nutritional food plays in ensuring human health and well-being and calls for a set of specific actions to make food safer.
One of such challenges is sustainable infection prevention and preservation of food, especially due to many pathogenic antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains transmitted in the food chain. Therefore, alternative methods of infection prevention and food preservation are being considered.
The aim of this project is to develop a new strategy based on enzybiotics (antimicrobial enzymes) which specifically target pathogenic bacteria leaving natural microflora untouched.
More information on the SafeFoodCtrl project: SafeFoodCtrl
