"Enhancing Cancer Vaccine Science for New Therapy Pathways", CANVAS for short, is a new project of the / International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science(ICCVS). It is also the first venture funded by Horizon Europe, with the University of Gdańsk acting as coordinator. On October 18, the official opening of the project took place at the ICCVS headquarters. The 5th birthday of the unit was also celebrated at the ceremony…

The Research Assessment Reform Agreement sets a common direction for change in research assessment practices, researchers and research-performing organisations, with the overarching goal of maximising the quality and impact of research. The agreement includes principles, commitments and timelines for reforms and sets out principles for collaboration in implementing change. - 'The signatories commit to a shared vision…

Prof. Anton Zeilinger,  fot. Austrian Academy of Sciences press photos, Jacqueline Godany University of Gdańsk's honorary doctor of science prof. Anton Zeilinger, as well as Alain Aspect and John Clauser, have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell's inequality and pioneering quantum…

Dr Anna Sobecka from the Institute of Art History at the Faculty of History of the University of Gdańsk has been awarded the Prize of the Committee for Research on Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Presidium of the KNOS had already included the book 'Picturing nature in modern Gdańsk. On the collecting culture of the city' among the outstanding achievements in the discipline of art sciences, and then in a vote…

Dr Magdalena Łągiewska is also the director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Gdańsk. An article by dr Magdalena Lugiewska from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk was published in the Journal of Contemporary China, a journal with an impact factor of 3.126. The publication is the result of research funded by the…

The European Patent Office (EPO) has decided to grant a team of scientists from the UG Department of Chemistry a European patent for an invention - a material, based on TiO2 nanotubes, for air purification from volatile organic and inorganic compounds, dust and microorganisms. The invention entitled: 'Material from titanium for air purification from organic and inorganic compounds, dust and micro-organisms', based on a…

Pictured is the team from the International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science at the University of Gdańsk. The International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science at the University of Gdańsk has received more than one million PLN in additional funding from the Foundation for Polish Science for a project carried out under the International Research Agendas…

The journal Nature Nanotechnology has published an article entitled Representing and describing nanomaterials in predictive nanoinformatics, co-authored by dr Alicja Mikołajczyk and dr inż. Karolina Jagiełło and prof. dr hab. Tomasz Puzyn from the Laboratory of Environmental Chemoinformatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk. The paper was written on the initiative of the UG scientists as part of scientific…

Tons of dead fish, mass extinction of all living organisms in the Oder, in other words, a great ecological disaster. Theories to explain this phenomenon have arisen and continue to arise. We know for sure that one of the factors wreaking havoc in the Oder is algae - the so-called golden algae. How and why did they get there? Can we do anything to avoid further blooms and an ecological crisis in the future? We ask prof…

A PhD student from the Cancer Immunology group at the University of Gdańsk's International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science (MCBSP), Ines Papak, has received funding from the ExCELLent Grant Programme created by the Polish Stem Cell Bank. Ines was awarded 4th place in a competitive programme aimed at young scientists. She was thus awarded a financial prize to be used to…