You meet them during X-ray scans or other diagnostic imaging. Medical physicists perform some of the most important research in modern medicine, but where do they acquire these skills? On Medical Physics Day, we take a look at how the course with this name has evolved after 11 years at the UG Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. The first recruitment for medical physics at the University of Gdańsk…

prof. dr hab. Alicja Węgrzyn; photo by Alan Stocki The Polish Patent Office has decided to grant four patents to a team of scientists from the Faculty of Biology of the UG and the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences for an invention preventing and combating infections in humans and animals,…

"Enhancing Cancer Vaccine Science for New Therapy Pathways", CANVAS for short, is a new project of the / International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science(ICCVS). It is also the first venture funded by Horizon Europe, with the University of Gdańsk acting as coordinator. On October 18, the official opening of the project took place at the ICCVS headquarters. The 5th birthday of the unit was also celebrated at the ceremony…

The Research Assessment Reform Agreement sets a common direction for change in research assessment practices, researchers and research-performing organisations, with the overarching goal of maximising the quality and impact of research. The agreement includes principles, commitments and timelines for reforms and sets out principles for collaboration in implementing change. - 'The signatories commit to a shared vision…

Prof. Anton Zeilinger,  fot. Austrian Academy of Sciences press photos, Jacqueline Godany University of Gdańsk's honorary doctor of science prof. Anton Zeilinger, as well as Alain Aspect and John Clauser, have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell's inequality and pioneering quantum…

Dr Anna Sobecka from the Institute of Art History at the Faculty of History of the University of Gdańsk has been awarded the Prize of the Committee for Research on Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Presidium of the KNOS had already included the book 'Picturing nature in modern Gdańsk. On the collecting culture of the city' among the outstanding achievements in the discipline of art sciences, and then in a vote…

Dr Magdalena Łągiewska is also the director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Gdańsk. An article by dr Magdalena Lugiewska from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk was published in the Journal of Contemporary China, a journal with an impact factor of 3.126. The publication is the result of research funded by the…

The European Patent Office (EPO) has decided to grant a team of scientists from the UG Department of Chemistry a European patent for an invention - a material, based on TiO2 nanotubes, for air purification from volatile organic and inorganic compounds, dust and microorganisms. The invention entitled: 'Material from titanium for air purification from organic and inorganic compounds, dust and micro-organisms', based on a…

Pictured is the team from the International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science at the University of Gdańsk. The International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science at the University of Gdańsk has received more than one million PLN in additional funding from the Foundation for Polish Science for a project carried out under the International Research Agendas…

The journal Nature Nanotechnology has published an article entitled Representing and describing nanomaterials in predictive nanoinformatics, co-authored by dr Alicja Mikołajczyk and dr inż. Karolina Jagiełło and prof. dr hab. Tomasz Puzyn from the Laboratory of Environmental Chemoinformatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk. The paper was written on the initiative of the UG scientists as part of scientific…