A prestigious grant within the NSC PRELUDIUM 22 competition has been awarded to Jurand Sobiecki, a Doctoral School of Humanities and Social Sciences participant at the University of Gdańsk. For the next three years, he will carry out, under the scientific supervision of dr hab. Natascha Kosakowska-Berezecka, prof. UG, a project entitled 'The role of…

  11 UG researchers received funding for projects in the OPUS 25 (including one as part of a consortium) and PRELUDIUM 22 competitions, funded by the National Science Centre. In total, financial support for the UG amounted to over PLN 7 million.   OPUS 25 is a competition for research projects intended for scientists at all stages of their scientific…

Pioneering research on 'indestructible' tardigrades is being conducted by an inter-university team of scientists, including, among others, dr Monika Mioduchowska from the UG Faculty of Biology. The group is headed by dr hab. Łukasz Kaczmarek, prof. UAM. A publication prepared by the researchers on the cosmopolitanism of one of the most interesting extremophiles appeared in the journal 'Scientific Reports' from the…

The Baltic Chemistry Conference student-doctoral initiative has been awarded the ProJuvenes student community award in the 'University without Borders' category. The competition is organised annually by the Students' Parliament of the Republic of Poland. The award-winning conference took place on May 27-28, 2023, in an online format and brought…

  Correction of symptoms of Huntington's disease by genistein through FOXO3-mediated autophagy stimulation - this is the title of an article published in the journal Autophagy, whose authors are scientists from the Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, UG: prof. Grzegorz Węgrzyn, dr Karolina Pierzynowska, dr Magdalena Podlacha, dr Lidia…