The annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings featuring young researchers from all over the world have been organised since 1951. They provide an excellent opportunity to have an intergenerational discussion on issues troubling contemporary science. This year, two representatives of the Jagiellonian University Medical College – Dr Mateusz Hołda and Adrian Chrobak – will take part in the meeting.
Dr Mateusz Hołda from the Chair in Anatomy and Clinic of Heart and Vessel Diseases of the JU MC Institute of Cardiology was the first person in Poland to receive a PhD before completing his Master’s programme. He is a two-time winner of contests organised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, holder of a scholarship in the START programme, and winner of the ‘Student Nobel’ awarded by the Independent Association of Students as well as Dr Wacław Mayzel Medical Laurel. In 2015, he received the Ministry of Science and Higher Education's ‘Diamond Grant’. He is the leader of the Heart Embryology and Anatomy Research Team (HEART), which specialises in innovative cardiac surgery techniques.
Adrian Chrobak is a PhD candidate the JU MC Faculty of Medicine. He conducts his research project at the Clinic of Psychiatry. He is a recipient of the ‘Diamond Grant’ and holder of a scholarship in the START programme as well as a number of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education scholarships. He has been published in esteemed journals (Molecular Neurobiology, Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, and Journal of Affective Disorders), and delivered over 50 presentations during international conferences.
The 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting is dedicated to physiology and medicine, and will set two records: 43 Nobel Laureates – more than ever before at a medicine meeting – will take participate in it, along with students from 84 countries. Among the participating laureates are also three new Nobel Laureates: the two biologists Michael Rosbash and Michael Young who were honoured for their research on the inner clock as well as the German-American chemist Joachim Frank.
