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Nencki Institute Attracts Dr Kai Ling Liang to Launch New Leukemia Research Laboratory

10.08.2026

Dr Kai Ling Liang, who previously worked at Ghent University in Belgium, has won an open competition to become a new research group leader and will establish a laboratory focused on uncovering the causes of leukemia — a group of potentially life-threatening blood cancers. One of the main directions of his research will be the search for the molecular mechanisms driving chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a disease that most commonly affects older adults. The Nencki Institute is among the few ...

We know how – and for whom – psychotherapy helps with procrastination

07.08.2026

Researchers from the Nencki Institute have investigated who benefits most from cognitive behavioural therapy for procrastination and what makes the therapy work. They found that people who ...

Nencki Institute Awarded Poland’s Highest Scientific Excellence Rating (A+)

23.07.2026

The Nencki Institute has once again been awarded the highest possible scientific evaluation category, A+, by Poland’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The distinction confirms the ...

The type of medication a person is taking can be inferred from an EEG recording

22.07.2026

Analysis of more than 24,000 EEG recordings and over 75,000 variables extracted from them has revealed how psychiatric medications affect the brain's electrical activity. Thanks to the findings ...

Paweł Mikulski PhD awarded a POL-OPENSCREEN 2.0 Research Voucher

17.07.2026

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Paweł Mikulski (Head of Laboratory of Immunological Epigenetics) has been selected as one of the recipients in the second call of the POL-OPENSCREEN 2.0 ...