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Latest trends in neuroscience at the PORT for Health: Neuroscience 2025 conference

19.03.2025

While this will not be the first time we have hosted scientists, clinicians and entrepreneurs related to the field of neuroscience at the institute, it will be the first time we have organized this conference under the banner of the P4Health project, which is strategic for Łukasiewicz – PORT. With the support of Horizon Europe’s […]

Therapeutic vaccine for breast cancer – a new project in Tomasz Lipiński’s team

11.03.2025

Patients with a diagnosis of breast cancer often hear from doctors – cancer is not a sentence. Modern medicine offers them various treatment methods depending on the stage of the disease: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or expensive monoclonal antibody therapy. Unfortunately, the mortality rate among patients remains high: in 2022, 2.3 million breast cancers were […]

More effective diagnosis of mental illnesses – SAME-NeuroID project

06.03.2025

Medicine still does not have enough useful tools to quickly and effectively diagnose patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. That’s why Łukasiewicz – PORT researchers want to better understand what abnormalities in human brain function lead to them. In the SAME-NeuroID (Standardized Approaches to Modeling and Examination of Neuropsychiatric Disorders) project, funded by the Horizon Europe program, […]

Competencies of the future: leadership and adaptation in the age of artificial intelligence

27.02.2025

What skills will be crucial in the next decades? How is artificial intelligence changing the job market and the role of leaders? We are living in a time of technological revolution, where the ability to adapt to ever-changing conditions, including professional ones, is of exceptional importance. The competencies required in the future were discussed by […]

P4Health strategic project officially launched!

20.02.2025

The beginning of a new era in precision medicine The largest project so far at Łukasiewicz – PORT, with funding of €15 million under the Teaming for Excellence competition of Horizon Europe, is expected to optimize the diagnosis of oncological and neurobiological diseases, develop concepts for personalized medicine, develop new diagnostic tools and implement them […]

European Cancer Imaging Initiative

19.02.2025

Joining forces to save lives (Vienna, 14 February 2025) – On 6 February 2025, the European Commission, together with the European Society of Radiology (ESR), and the European Federation for Cancer Images (EUCAIM) brought together 160 leading experts from policymaking, research, healthcare, and industry to explore how the European Cancer Imaging Initiative harnesses health data […]

Toward a functional cure for HIV infection

14.02.2025

Dr. Heng-Chang Chen’s team from Łukasiewicz – Port, in collaboration with researchers from Jagiellonian University and Belgium’s KU Leuven, set out to find innovative strategies for a functional cure of HIV. The research received funding from the Weave-UNISONO program in the amount of 3.5 million PLN. According to the World Health Organization, by the end […]

How to effectively commercialize scientific discoveries?

12.02.2025

We invite our research groups to the “Commercialization Ideation Workshop” organized within the framework of the SAME-NeuroID project –Senior Staff Training in cooperation with Łukasiewicz – PORT Technology Transfer Department. The workshop will take place on Wednesday, February 26, and will be hosted by the Biocatalyst Foundation – a non-profit organization that supports the development […]

Wrocław BioTech Hub – integration of Wrocław’s scientific community

04.02.2025

Seven Wrocław scientific institutions are consolidating their activities to work together on building strong research and development facilities and strengthening the city’s position as a significant scientific center. This is the first step on the road to a center of excellence in Wrocław. Wrocław BioTech Hub is an initiative to integrate the scientific community, but […]

Cellular immunotherapy: do we hold the key to defeat cancer? Gregory Chodaczek’s new project

23.01.2025

Grzegorz Chodaczek, PhD, leader of the Immunotherapy Research Group at Łukasiewicz – PORT, proves that properly selected gamma-delta T lymphocytes extracted from human blood can be an effective tool in the fight against the most dangerous brain tumor – glioblastoma multiforme. The nearly 15 million PLN that the Wroclaw scientists have just been awarded by […]