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The Nanotechnology of Polymers and Biomaterials team (Faculty of Chemistry) led by Maria Nowakowska has conducted a research on the substances which would neutralize the influence of heparin. The substances act similarly to protamines (used as heparine antidotes) with the difference that they do not cause allergies.

Agnieszka Słowik, PhD, the Head of the Institute of Neurogenetics and Chair in Neurology, Collegium Medicum, has been made a member of the American Neurological Association. The membership was granted to Agnieszka Słowik for her significant contribution into the research in the neurogenetics of cerebral stroke and degenerative diseases.

The ceremony of the Opening of the Academic Year was held on 1 October 2010. The event was preceded by a Mass in St Anne's Church. At 10 a.m. a traditional procession of the university government and professors in black gowns proceeded from Collegium Maius to Auditorium Maximum. During the ceremony, freshers received their record books and all guests listened to this year's first lecture.

The SAPIENT(South African Partnership with International research universities network: thE Next sTep) project will start in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. The Jagiellonian University is among the project's partners.

Mr Marek Nawara, the Marshal of the Małopolskie Voivodship and members of the JU Government have signed the project whose objective is to provide access to online resources of the Jagiellonian University library collection.

10 JU scholars received scholarships from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.