MMRI PAS - member of PACTT
Mossakowski Medical Research Institute PAS announced the 81st member of The Polish Association of Centers for Technology Transfer (PACTT.pl)
The Polish Association of Centers for Technology Transfer (PACTT.pl) is a voluntary association of representative units of Polish universities responsible for the protection, management and commercialization of university Intellectual Property (IP).
PACTT goals:
- Integration of the professional environment dealing with the knowledge and technology transfer in academic ecosystem.
- Exchange of knowledge, experience, standards and good practices.
- Development of technology transfer professionals.
- Cooperation in the field of commercialization of research results.
- Joint representation of the members of PACTT.pl before public administration bodies, employers' associations and other entities operating toward innovation and cooperation between science and business. This representation applies, in particular, to such actions as: initiating pro-innovation activities of national character, preparing and giving opinions on legal changes and issuing opinions on strategic documents and actions taken by authorized bodies in the area of national innovation policy.
For more information about PACTT.pl, please visit: https://pactt.pl/en/
Special award for prof. L. Bużańska
Director of IMDiK PAN prof. Leonora Bużańska awarded with "30th Anniversary IDOL"
by the "Chance for the Blind" Foundation
The awards were presented on Monday, January 10, during the celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the “Chance for the Blind” Foundation at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Prof. Leonora Bużańska is a founding member of the Founders' Council and has been substantively supporting the Foundation since its establishment.
The "IDOL of Chance the Blind Foundation” award is aimed at people and institutions supporting the blind and partially sighted and adapting their activities to the needs of people with visual disabilities - to those "who are guided by the good of others, and dedicated to support the blind. Professor Bużańska was awarded with special jubilee edition of IDOL – the "IDOL OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY" – it’s a special distinction, and prof. Bużańska said: "I am honored with this unique distinction awarded by those whose work and commitment I appreciate and admire. The "Chance for the Blind" Foundation is made up of people who understand the needs of blind and partially sighted people, therefore their actions really improve the quality of life of people supported by the Foundation in its various aspects. "
About the Foundation
The Foundation was established in 1992 on the initiative of blind people and their sighted friends. The Foundation's activities consist in supporting people who have lost their eyesight, and medicine gives them no hope of improving their situation. The activities of the Foundation include, among others, the organization of workshops and trainings where participants receive tools and tips so that they can lead an active and successful life. The Foundation also offers textbooks on modern rehabilitation and organizes the world's largest international conference, REHA FOR THE BLIND IN POLAND, attended annually by several thousand people from around the world.
More about the "Chance for the Blind" Foundation: http://www.szansadlaniewidomych.org/index.php/en/about-us/
New research equipment at MMRI PAS
The research infrastructure if our Institute has just been expanded with high-end equipment: Cellvizio® Dual Band System by Manua Kea Technologies for in vivo imaging in pre-clinical trials at cell resolution.
Cellvizio® System is a fluorescence-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) system, one of two devices of its type currently in use in Poland. The system allows for real-time imaging of tissues and cells by means on non- or minimally invasive methods.
The System combines confocal microscope and a flexible confocal microprobe to take advantage of both technological solutions. Highly-sensitive detectors enable surface imaging in contact with the tissue as well as internal imaging by inserting the detector into the soft tissue of interest. Confocal imaging, in turn, allows for imaging at cell resolution which is unavailable in other in vivo imaging systems (MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, Ultrasound, among others).
What is particularly valuable about real-time in vivo endomicroscopy is:
• the access to any place of interest to the experimenter during the whole imaging process
• opportunity to capture functional and morphological images both in animals that are awake after previous immobilization, and in the animal under inhalation anaesthesia (light anaesthesia)
• possibility of dynamic changes recording in vivo in the same animal over a longer period
Such features of the equipment allow for a wide range of research, including:
• vascularisation assessment: its density, morphology and functioning,
• dynamic recording of cellular and molecular interactions
• analysis of biodistribution of medication, endocrine and paracrine substances,
• monitoring of physiological and functional changes in the anatomical context
MMRI PAS Cellvizio® System is currently located at the Department of Renal and Body Fluid Physiology,
supervised by Prof. Elżbieta Kompanowska-Jezierska MD PhD:
tel. 22 60 86 546; E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
All the interested external and internal researchers are invited to contact the equipment supervisor.
Moreover, we are currently searching for the equipment operator: a person willing to undergo the training provided by the producer, who will next be responsible for the equipment exploitation, the design of protocols of staining of particular organs and tissues, research material preparation, performance of the imaging, deconvolution and confocal image analysis.
Interested persons are asked to contact the equipment supervisor.
OPUS 21 and PRELUDIUM 20 - record edition for MMRI PAS
In the June edition of the National Science Center OPUS 21 and PRELUDIUM 20 calls, employees of MMRI PAS were awarded with 10 research grants - this is the best result achieved in a single grant recruitment in the history of our Institute.
Our success rate is also impressive - while the average overall success rate in both calls was approx. 20% - our Institute's rate is as high as 35%!
We are happy to present the winners from our Institute:
OPUS 21:
Prof. dr hab. Lidia Strużyńska
Dr hab. inż. Agnieszka Piwkowska
Dr hab. Dorota Rogacka
Dr hab. Monika Szeliga
Dr Michał Fiedorowicz
Dr Jakub Godlewski
PRELUDIUM 20:
Mgr inż. Lidia Babiec
Mgr Klaudia Kiel
Mgr Adrian Szczepaniak
Mgr Iga Wieczorek
Cogratulations to laureates!
Congratulations to Sylwia Dąbrowska!
Sylwia Dąbrowska, MD PhD from the Department of Restorative Neurobiology MMRI PAS was ranked 3rd in the 13th Innovator of Mazovia competition in the category of
Innovative Scientist for the paper ‘The analysis of the immunomodulatory properties of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and their extracellular vesicles’.
Our warm congratulations!
The idea behind the competition organised by the Self-government of Masovia Province is to support and promote pro-innovation attitudes and to build the awareness of scientific and business circles of the role of innovation in economic development of the region and acquisition of new technologies-based competences. The competition also aims at establishing and promoting the collaboration between science business and the Self-government of Masovia Province.
This year’s edition was considered as unique by the organisers with regard to the number of applications submitted: a total of 105 researcher and companies applied in the call.
The final meeting was held on 3 November 2021 at the seat of the Marshal's Office of Masovian Province in Warsaw and the awards were handed out by Vice Marshal, Wiesław Raboszuk. The film coverage of the gala can be seen on the competition website: www.innowatormazowsza2021.pl