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Winners and Scholarship Holders of FNP Programs Fight Against COVID-19

17.03.2020
"Scientists from all over the world are seeking ways to defeat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Polish researchers, many of whom are winners of FNP programs, have also undertaken the challenge. Prof. Marcin Drąg, winner of the 2019 FNP prize, has studied the COVID-19 virus with his team...

FNP Prize Winner deciphers an enzyme critical in the fight against SARS-CoV-2

16.03.2020
"Prof. Marcin Drąg from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology and his team have deciphered an enzyme whose activity may be crucial in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. ?If we treat this enzyme as a lock, we have just made a key to it,? says Drąg in his conversation with the...

Polish scientific research published in the journal Angewandte Chemie

13.03.2020
"The high-ranking journal Andewandte Chemie has published the results of the research conducted by Polish scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, under the guidance of Prof. Daniel Gryko, winner of many FNP programs. It is one of the few publications...

First Polish?French Science Award delivered

02.03.2020
"Dr Marcin Szwed and Prof. Laurent Cohen, as well as Prof. Jakub Zakrzewski and Dr Dominique Delande, have received the first Maria Skłodowska and Pierre Curie Polish?French Science Award. The award ceremony was held on 28 February 2020 in Warsaw. The award was given for outstanding scientific...

Call for FNP experts ? the 21th round

19.02.2020
"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...

FNP laureate publishes article in Nature Chemistry

13.02.2020
" We are pleased to report that Dr Artur R. Stefankiewicz, a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he is affiliated with the Faculty of Chemistry and the Wielkopolska Centre for Advanced Technologies, has published a work in the prestigious journal Nature Chemistry as part of an...

Researchers from Poland get EMBO grants

16.01.2020
"Researchers from Poland get EMBO grants Five young researchers from Poland have received grants from the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). This group includes dr Piotr Szwedziak of ReMedy, a MAB centre of excellence supported by FNP under the International Research Agendas...

Call for FNP experts ? the 20th round

12.12.2019
"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...

2019 Foundation for Polish Science Prizes delivered

04.12.2019
"For the 28th time, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has awarded the FNP Prizes, regarded as the most important scientific honour in Poland. During a gala at the Royal Castle in Warsaw on 4 December 2019, the FNP Prizes were received by three outstanding professors: Marcin Drąg from the...

Straight to helical nanomaterials

29.11.2019
"A team led by Dr. Hab. Wiktor Lewandowski, from the Faculty of Chemistry, the University of Warsaw, supported by Dr. Michał Wójcik, the University of Warsaw, and Dr. Guille Gonzalez-Rubio, CIC biomaGUNE, Spain, have developed a new method for creating soft helical (spiral) nanomaterials. Their...

First Polish?French Science Award announced

19.11.2019
"Dr Marcin Szwed and Prof. Laurent Cohen, as well as Prof. Jakub Zakrzewski and Dr Dominique Delande, have been honoured with the first Maria Skłodowska and Pierre Curie Polish?French Science Award. The award is given for outstanding scientific achievements resulting from cooperation between...

I am like a proton

15.11.2019
"A profile of dr Irena Dapic, head of the laboratory at the International Research Agenda ?International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science? in Gdańsk. Dr Irena Dapic is Croatian. At school, she was serious about becoming a doctor. Ultimately, however, she decided to study chemistry at the...

2019 Foundation for Polish Science Prizes awarded

06.11.2019
"For the 28th time, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has awarded the Foundation for Polish Science Prizes, which enjoy the reputation of the most important scientific honours in Poland. The laureates are three distinguished scholars: Prof. Marcin Drąg, Prof. Andrzej Kossakowski and Prof....

Call for FNP experts ? the 19th round

31.10.2019
"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...

Ultracold caesium and potassium atoms in a trap for the first time in Poland

11.10.2019
"A group of PhD students from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw led by dr Mariusz Semczuk, winner of the competition held under the HOMING programme of the Foundation for Polish Science has obtained ultracold caesium and potassium atoms, the first such atoms in Poland. This is an...

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