The National Science Centre has announced the ranking lists of projects approved for funding in the OPUS 26, SONATA 19 and MINIATURA 8 calls. Scientists from the Nencki Institute received financial support for 8 research projects:

OPUS 26

dr hab. Adam Hamed – Investigating the neurobiological mechanisms of the anti-addictive effects of psychedelics
dr Piotr Michaluk – Role of Astrocytes in Chronic Stress Resilience
dr hab. Marzena Stefaniuk  - Inhibitory Functional Networks in Addiction Development within Social Context - a Missing Piece of Puzzle
prof. dr hab. Adam Szewczyk - Targeting mitochondrial potassium channels to regulate cellular senescence

SONATA 19

dr Katarzyna Ciuba  - Evolution and function of astrocytic extracellular vesicles
dr hab. Aleksandra Herman - When body-brain communication goes awry: Investigating decision-making in nociplastic pain
dr Ahmad Salamian - dArc side of amygdala: a role of Arc in amygdala development and alcohol use disorder (AUD)

MINIATURA 8

dr Pilar Rodriguez Viso - Human 3D airway epithelial cell culture models to study host-microbiota interactions