A research team from the JU Faculty of Chemistry working under the supervision of Dr Katarzyna Magiera-Mularz in collaboration with researchers from other institutions has published a paper in which they describe a macrocyclic peptide that blocks the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway (programmed cell death) crucial for the development of cancer. The paper was featured in the prestigious journal Molecular Cancer.
Prof. Grażyna Jasieńska, head of the JU MC Institute of Public Health Department of Health and Environment, has become the secretary of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health for the 2023–2027 term. The aim of the organisation is to promote and support the exchange of ideas between researchers, students, clinicians and public health experts.
Researchers from the Jagiellonian University have announced the discovery of a new species of butterfly. The insect endemic to the Peruvian Andes received the Latin name Catasticta copernicus. In this way, scientists are paying homage to the great astronomer and polymath Nicolaus Copernicus to mark the 550th anniversary of his birth.
Jakub Jeżowski, student of a joint programme of the the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) and the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, has been awarded an EMBL fellowship for predoctoral researchers, allowing him to join the EMBL International PhD Programme and conduct his PhD thesis at EMBL Heidelberg.
On 12 July 2023, the JU Institute of Dentistry hosted the national finals of the international restorative dentistry contest Jules Allemand Trophy. The winner was Agnieszka Słania, a graduate of the Dental Medicine programme at the Jagiellonian University Medical College. She will now represent Poland during the international finals, which will take place in September in D’Annunzio University of Chieti in Italy.
The latest work of scientists from the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University revealed the mechanistic effects of a specific mRNA modification, namely N6 adenine methylation, on the translation process. The results were obtained in collaboration with a group at Max Planck Institute in Göttingen and recently published in Nature Communications.
In the latest, 21st edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as the Shanghai Ranking, there are nine Polish higher education institutions – two fewer than in the previous year. Amongst them, the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw have received the highest notes. Harvard University remains at the top of the list.
Sunday, 9 August 2023 saw the conclusion of the 30th International Mathematics Competition for University Students, which fully returned to the in-person mode after a three-year-long pandemic-related break. Nearly 400 young mathematicians from all over the world competed in the Bulgarian town of Blagoevgrad.
Rector's Proxy for Cooperation within the Framework of Una Europa Prof. Stanisław Kistryn has become the coordinator of the Polish branch of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). The Coalition, numbering more than 350 organisations from over 40 countries, was established last year in order to change the method of evaluation of research.
The latest issue of the journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental features a paper by members of the Zeolites Chemistry Group Dr Karolina Tarach and Prof. Kinga Góra-Marek. The paper, entitled Hierarchical zeolites TNU-9 and IM-5 as the catalysts for cracking processes, is a result of collaboration with the Technical University of Valencia.
Research teams from the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Geography and Geology, and Faculty of Philosophy will carry out bilateral projects in collaboration with researchers from the Czech Republic within the framework of OPUS 24+LAP/Weave scheme. For that purpose they will receive nearly 3.2 million zlotys from the National Science Centre.
The National Science Centre has published the list of Polish winners of the OPUS 24+ LAP call, who will carry out joint projects within bilateral agreements in collaboration with Swiss research institutions. One of them is Prof. Dorota Stępień from the JU Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science. The total amount of funding awarded to five winning projects amounts to nearly 9.2 million zlotys.