Polish scientists push back the boundaries of live brain imaging
Polish physicists and neuroscientists are joining forces to develop a miniature, biocompatible imaging system based on optical-fibre microlenses, which can be inserted into the deeper structures of the brain, such as the amygdala, of experimental ani...
Winners of the competition under the IRAP programme have attended two international conferences on microelectronics
On 23-26 September 2019 in Kraków two prestigious events in the field of microelectronics were held, the 49th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC) and the 45th European Solid-State Circuits (ESSCIRC), gathering over 500 pa...
The ENSEMBLE3 project has been launched
The European Research and Innovation Days, held in late September in Brussels, featured the symbolic inauguration of the ENSEMBLE3 project. The project’s coordinator is Dorota A. Pawlak, a winner of a number of FNP competitions. The goal of the...
How smog affects children?s brains
Polish scientists in the NeuroSmog consortium plan to study hundreds of children to determine how smog impacts their developing brains. They have received over PLN 15 million for this research from the Foundation for Polish Science under the TEAM-NET...
START 2020 recruitment launched
From today, 17 September 2019, through the end of October, young researchers can file applications for stipends in the START programme (2020 competition). The START stipend is a distinction for the most talented young researchers awarded in recogniti...
In search of new sources of terahertz radiation
Terahertz radiation, invisible to the human eye, can be placed in the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared radiation and microwaves. It is often called the ?the forgotten band?, or ?the Terahertz gap.? This is because we still have not found the...
First TEAM?s laureate, with an ERC grant for dissecting the mechanism of DNA repair in human mitochondria
The European Research Council has awarded dr hab. Michał R. Szymański, from the University of Gdańsk, a grant of EUR 1.5 million as part of an ERC Starting Grant. The project title is Dissecting the mechanism of DNA repair in …
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