On 20 March 2018 the Polish Academy of Sciences hosted Experts of the Research, Innovation and Science Policy (RISE) Group. The RISE experts advise the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas. The event was chaired by Prof. Jerzy Duszyński, President of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Dr Daria Gołębiowska-Tataj, Chair of the RISE Group.
The conference organised by the Polish Academy of Sciences Nature-Based Solutions for Water will be held on 22nd March in the Staszic Palace in Warsaw, Nowy Świat 72 street.
Following the decision made during the Visegrad Group Academies Forum, held in Warsaw on 26-27 September 2017, the representatives of the V4 Academies published the Position Statement by the V4 Academies of Sciences on Framework Programme 9.
The Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences is currently engaged in two ESA’s (European Space Agency) projects concerning landing on Phobos – one of Martians moons.
There is not enough scientific data to justify salvage logging in Białowieża Forest – Polish scientists, including the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), write in the letter recently published in Science.
Variety of microbes under stress conditions produce… high-value plastic. Such a material, which is not artificial at all, easily decomposes and additionally displays good biocompatibility properties. We can use them to produce dressings or implant biomaterials.
Prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyń, the director of the Nencki Institute, appointed the Deputy Directors and Director's Representative on February 2nd, 2018.
The session of the Scientific Council devoted to the Report on the Nencki Institute activities took place on February 2nd, 2018. Prof. Andrzej Wrobel commenced the meeting by welcoming the guests.
The day of January 30th , 2018 was the last day of the exhibition "Bioimagine: Inspiration of Invisible World?” at the Nencki Institute PAS. However, on January 17th , 2018 the Director of the Institute prof. Adam Szewczyk, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nencki Institute PAS, established a new library collection under the name: "Nencki Art Collection".
On January 17th, 2018, a ceremony was held, during which the Director of the Nencki Institute, prof. Adam Szewczyk, in acknowledgment of special merits for the development of the Nencki Institute, handed out the medals to prof. Jerzy Puchalski and prof. Wiesław Bogdanowicz. Prof. Puchalski was in charge of the Botanical Garden PAS in Powsin for almost 28 years.
On November 22nd, 2017, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent (application number US 15/106,163) for an invention entitled: “A method for detecting an increased risk of developing skin cancer and a use of a genotype variant of the GRHL3 gene”.
On February 1st, 2018 Prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyń was nominated for the position of the Director of the Nencki Institute. The nomination was signed by the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Prof. Jerzy Duszyński, which came about as a result of an open recruitment procedure.
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