Dr. hab. Mirosław Kruk, prof. UG, form the Institute of Art History of the Faculty of History at the University of Gdańsk, received the award for extraordinary achievements in art sciences, art history category. The award is granted by the Art Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). The Art Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences decided to…

Ministry of Education and Science granted University of Gdańsk with the designated subsidy from budgetary sources worth PLN 4 million, in order to adapt the infrastructure and create a laboratory with improved biosafety level (BSL-3+). The laboratory will study the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus. It will be the second such laboratory in Poland. The subsidy granted is the statement to…

The Research and Development Laboratory of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk received the Accreditation Certificate No. AB1760 from the Polish Centre for Accreditation. The Research and Development Laboratory managed by prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska was accredited thanks to the enormous commitment of…

14 researchers from the University of Gdańsk have been featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists List in terms of the citability of their works among their peers. The current edition of the World’s Top 2% Scientists List has just been published in the PLOS Biology Journal by Stanford University authors, together with Elsevier publishing house and SciTech Strategies company.…

Photograph shows prof. dr hab. inż. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Gdańsk. Prof. dr hab. inż. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Gdańsk won the Intelligent Development Award Poland 2020 in the ‘scientists of the future’ category, for carrying out three research projects.…

Prof. UG, dr hab. Radosław Giętkowski and prof. UG, dr. hab. Grzegorz Wierczyński from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk have been elected members of the Disciplinary Commission at the National Council for Science and Higher Education Poland for the 2021-2024 term. The National Council for Science and Higher Education Poland (RGNiSW), by the resolution of 8 October 2020, elected prof. UG…

The execution of the project funded by the National Center for Research and Development (NCBiR), titled “Nowe technologie farmakologicznej stymulacji regeneracji” (New technologies for pharmacological stimulation of regeneration) REGENNOVA resulted in two positive decisions of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland on granting patents to researchers from the Faculty of…

The patented compound can be potentially applied in Huntington’s disease treatment – genetic central nervous system disease characterized by mobility issues and psychic disorders, among other symptoms. The Patent Office of the Republic of Poland granted another patent to the University of Gdańsk, for the invention titled ‘2 - izotiocyjanianoetylobenzen do…

Dr Alicja Bonk,  Dr Alicja Bonk from the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the University of Gdańsk, an oceanographer specializing in marine geology, received PAGES Early-Career Award. Dr Bonk was recognized for her expertise in paleolimnology, her cross-disciplinary work to improve knowledge of past global environment changes in East-Central Europe…

Prof. dr hab. Magdalena Gabig-Cimińska from the UG Department of Medical Biology and Genetics on studying and using SARS-CoV-2 ‘weak spots’ in COVID-19 treatment. Prof. dr hab. Magdalena Gabig-Cimińska from the Department of Medical Biology and Genetics of the UG Faculty of Biology and the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and…