The National Science Centre has announced the ranking lists of projects approved for funding in OPUS 21 and PRELUDIUM 20 calls. Scientists from the Nencki Institute received financial support for 7 research projects.

OPUS:

dr hab. Mark Jeremy Hunt – Integration of sensory and cortical input in the generation of ketamine-dependent high frequency oscillations in rodents.  - Grant implemented in consortium with Mossakowski Medical Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences

dr hab. Katarzyna Piwocka – Verification of personalized therapeutic strategy based on Integrated Stress Response inhibition for myeloid neoplasms with PTPN11 mutations.

prof. dr hab. Jakub Mateusz Włodarczyk – Molecular mechanisms of 5-HT7R-mediated resilience in stress-related disorders - Grant implemented in consortium with Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences

dr hab. Dorota Włoga – Dissecting the molecular mechanisms that control cilia beating – around and inside the N-DRC “black box”

dr inż. Tomasz Piotr Wypych – Utilizing microbial metabolites for multiple sclerosis treatment

prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Olaf Zabłocki – How mutations in the dystrophin-encoding gene affect calcium homeostasis, energy metabolism and selected functions of vascular endothelial cells; indicating regulatory mechanisms

PRELUDIUM:

mgr Jacek Wróbel - Dopaminergic modulation of high frequency oscillations in the rat olfactory bulb associated with the NMDA receptor hypofunction model of psychosis