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Dr Paweł Trzaskoma awarded a Polish Returns NAWA grant

02.09.2026

After seven years at the National Institutes of Health, Dr Paweł Trzaskoma is returning to Poland to establish a new laboratory at the Nencki Institute. His return and the development of his research team will be supported by a grant from the NAWA Polish Returns programme, which helps researchers bring the expertise they have gained abroad back to Poland and develop their own research here. In his newly established laboratory, Dr Trzaskoma will investigate the mechanisms that regulate ...

Dr Kai Ling Liang awarded TOP200 NAWA funding

28.08.2026

Dr Liang is one of the recipients of the first edition of the TOP200 NAWA programme, aimed at researchers from universities ranked among the world’s top 200 who choose to continue developing ...

Dr Paweł Trzaskoma will investigate why genes go out of control

20.08.2026

Disrupted gene expression underlies many autoimmune diseases and cancers. Dr Paweł Trzaskoma, head of a new laboratory at the Nencki Institute, wants to trace these abnormalities back to their ...

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 ...

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 ...