Among the laureates of the ETIUDA4 competition for PhD scholarships, announced by the NCN on 15th December, 2015, three students from the Nencki Institute were included:

- mgr Monika Riegel from the Laboratory of Brain Imaging headed by dr Artur Marchewka, with the project Neural mechanisms of associative memory of emotionally charged verbal material - the role of emotional congruency and basic emotions - behavioural and functional magnetic resonance study.

- mgr Ilona Kotlewska from the Laboratory of Psychophysiology, headed by prof. Anna Grabowska, with the project Neural correlates of processing the self-related information at present and in the past.

- mgr Anna Aneta Strzeszewska from the Laboratory of of Molecular Bases of Aging, headed by prof. Ewa Sikora, with the project Identification of the p53-independent signaling pathways leading to senescence of cancer cells.