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Capture the heat, capture the sound

12.10.2020
"Dr hab. Bartłomiej Graczykowski, the laureate of the HOMING and FIRST TEAM programmes of the Foundation for Polish Science, constructs nanostructures in which sound and heat flow in a strictly controlled manner. These structures potentially have many different practical applications, for example,...

The COPERNICUS Award Ceremony Has Been Canceled

06.10.2020
"Due to the worsening epidemic, the COPERNICUS Award Ceremony, which was to take place on Monday, October 12, 2020, has been canceled. The laureates of the 8th edition of the Polish-German Scientific Award COPERNICUS are prof. Sebastian Faust of the Technical University of Darmstadt and prof....

Microscopy beyond the resolution limit

06.10.2020
"The Polish-Israeli team led by Radek Łapkiewicz from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, winner of the FIRST TEAM programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, has made another significant achievement. In the pages of the Optica journal, the scientists presented a new method of...

New Members of the FNP?s Council

28.09.2020
"On September 25, the first meeting of the FNP Council for the 2020?2024 term was held at the Foundation for Polish Science headquarters. The term began on September 1, 2020, after the end of the last Council?s term of office after the 2016?2020 term. The meeting of the new Council was preceded by...

FNP laureates publish in JACS

28.09.2020
"Laureates of FNP programmes from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST), in partnership with American researchers, have developed a new method to simultaneously scan the activity of proteolytic enzymes in cells. Their research results have been published in the prestigious...

Call for Applications for the START 2021 Competition

23.09.2020
"From September 23 to November 2, 2020, young scientists can apply for a scholarship in the START 2021 competition. The START scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is a prestigious distinction for the most talented young researchers, awarded in recognition of their scientific...

How COVID-19 pandemic is affecting immigrants and ethnic minorities

17.09.2020
"The health and economic crisis associated with the recent COVID-19 pandemic is elevating the levels of stress, anxiety and depression. While nearly everyone is exposed to these negative emotional effects of the pandemic, ethnic minorities and immigrants seem to be the most vulnerable. These...

A living molecular fossil

15.09.2020
"An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Research Group at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) deciphered the molecular mechanism of a sulfur carrier system that stands at the root of all eukaryotic Ubiquitin-conjugation systems. For this project, the team headed by...

Warsaw's scientiscts make NMR measurements much faster

11.09.2020
"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) can now be used for more than just medical examination. As a measurement technology which offers extremely accurate insights into the structure of molecules and biochemical processes, NMR can support the development of new drugs and help optimise many industrial...

Call for FNP experts ? the 27th round

03.09.2020
" The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

Secrets of Polish Constrictor Snakes

28.08.2020
"He tracks snakes. He sticks transmitters to their scales, and he knows what nooks and crannies they slip into. He accompanies them in marshy thickets and in their big-city hideouts. He knows the secrets of creatures that others fear. Even if accidentally bitten by his own fault, he argues that a...

Could Interferon help in the fight against COVID-19?

19.08.2020
"Dr Alicja Chmielewska, a Polish virologist from Gdańsk, is verifting whether human immune proteins, also known as interferons, could stimulate the immunological system to effectively fight with SARS-CoV-2. Her research is financed by the Foundation for Polish Science from the EU Smart Growth...

A Prize for FNP MONOGRAPHS Publication

10.08.2020
"We are pleased to inform you that the book by Dr. Katarzyna Kalinowska, published in the FNP MONOGRAPHS series, entitled Praktyki flirtu i podrywu. Studium z mikrosocjologii emocji (Flirt and Pickup Practices: A Study in the Microsociology of Emotions) received the Stanisław Ossowski Prize...

About terahertz waves on the PR1 radio station

06.08.2020
"What is terahertz radiation and how can we use it to develop new technologies and for 6G-based high-speed data transmission? Professor Wojciech Knap, the co-founder of the Warsaw-based CENTERA institute, talks about this significant discovery of CENTERA researchers . CENTERA, Center for...

Foundation?s Annual Report

06.08.2020
"We present you with the Annual FNP Report, which overviews our activities in 2019. As in previous years, the document reports on our statutory activities in 2019, along with financial statements, the auditor?s report, and a supplement presenting some of the FNP?s initiatives and selected FNP...

FNP Parent-Bridge programme winner seeks new method of treating glioma

03.08.2020
"Dr. Hab. Maja Grabacka from the Faculty of Food Technology at the University of Agriculture in Krakow proved in her experiments that the development of gliomas (brain tumors) could be inhibited by introducing tumor cells into an energy crisis with the use of fenofibrate, a substance used in the...

This year?s FNP START winner co-authored a publication in Nature

31.07.2020
"The method presented in the article published in the prestigious journal Nature enables the ?editing? of mitochondrial DNA, meaning the introduction of precise changes within the mitochondrial genome. This method will allow further study of mitochondrial diseases caused by mutations in...

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