Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy

The National Science Centre has announced the fifth ranking list of projects eligible for funding under the Weave-UNISONO 2025 competition. We are proud to announce that among the winning projects is a grant for Krzysztof Fink, PhD, from the Laboratory of Biomedical Chemistry IIET PAS. The project entitled ‘Amphiphilic peptidomimetics containing metallocarboranes Czytaj więcej…

We are pleased to announce that the Director of the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) has awarded funding for a research project entitled ‘Bile-driven modulation of bacterial extracellular vesicles: Production, composition, and functional impacts on host and microbiota’. The project, coordinated by Agnieszka Razim, PhD, from the Microbiome Immunobiology Laboratory IIET Czytaj więcej…

We are pleased to announce that the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences complies with the principles of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) in the field of chemical analysis, as confirmed by certificate No. 32/2025/DPL signed on 3 December 2025 by the President of the Office for Czytaj więcej…

We are proud to announce that the Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences is a partner in the consortium implementing the PACMAN project, which was the only one to receive funding in the prestigious Virtual Research Institute (WIB) competition. An international panel of experts gave the highest Czytaj więcej…

Forum Akademickie has published an interview with Agnieszka Razim, PhD, from the Laboratory of Microbiome Immunobiology IIET PAS, a finalist in this year’s Polityka Scientific Awards. The researcher talks about her research on the impact of malnutrition on the human microbiome, the role of bacterial extracellular vesicles, and combining basic research with Czytaj więcej…

On December 8, 2005, a monument to Rudolf Weigl, a Polish biologist and inventor of the world’s first effective typhus vaccine, was unveiled in front of the Institute of Immunology. Yesterday, a ceremony was held at our Institute to mark the 20th anniversary of the monument’s unveiling. Among the guests we hosted Czytaj więcej…

We are pleased to announce that Hubert Kasprzak, PhD student at the Bacteriophage Laboratory, was a guest on the Polish Radio RDC program “Pan od Przyrody” (Mr. Nature) on Sunday, December 7. In reference to the recently celebrated Barbórka, the topic of the program was coal. The first guest talked about the Czytaj więcej…

A monument dedicated to the memory of Professor Rudolf Weigl, the creator of the typhus vaccine, was unveiled in front of the Hirszfeld Institute on December 8, 2005. The obelisk was funded by public donations, mainly from the residents of Lviv – the “Weiglers” – a handful of Weigl’s last colleagues, and Czytaj więcej…

The program aims to support entities within the higher education and science system, as well as other organizational units working to promote science, in the implementation of projects aimed at presenting current scientific achievements and the latest results of scientific research or development work. Funding is available in two modules: Scientific Conferences Czytaj więcej…