We are pleased to announce that Honorata Kraśkiewicz, Ph.D., from the Independent Laboratory of Stem Cell and Cancer Biology, headed by Prof. Aleksandra Klimczak, Ph.D., has been awarded a grant funded by NCN under the M-ERA.NET Call 2023 competition for international research projects on materials science and engineering. The competition attracted 382 Czytaj więcej…
“Whoever wants to be happy, should not seek happiness, should seek life.”
On March 7 this year, on the 70th anniversary of Professor Ludwik Hirszfeld’s death, a delegation from the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences took part in a ceremony to unveil a memorial plaque dedicated to our Patron. The event took place at the Regional Center Czytaj więcej…
Katarzyna Pacyga-Prus, M.Sc., and Marta Piksa, M.Sc., at the diploma presentation ceremony for the winners of the Ludwig Hirszfeld Scholarship Program.
On February 21, a ceremony was held at the Wroclaw City Hall to award diplomas to the winners of the Student Scholarship Program, which was attended by two doctoral students of the Wroclaw Doctoral School of PAS Institutes operating at the Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Czytaj więcej…
70th anniversary of Ludwik Hirszfeld’s death
“He who does not know the past cannot create the future” – Ludwik Hirszfeld Professor Ludwik Hirszfeld, founder of the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, passed away 70 years ago. Wroclaw newspapers wrote: “Polish science has covered itself with mourning. On March 7 [1954] Ludwik Czytaj więcej…
Professor Hanna Hirszfeldowa 1884 – 1964
The biography of Professor Hanna Hirszfeld, an outstanding pediatric physician, is largely overshadowed by the figure of her husband, an outstanding microbiologist, immunologist and discoverer of blood group inheritance. Meanwhile, she not only had significant scientific achievements in the field of pediatrics, but also participated with her husband in research of great Czytaj więcej…
Alzheimer’s Association International Research Grant Program for Marta Sochocka, PhD
We are proud to announce that Marta Sochocka, PhD from the Laboratory of Virology has been awarded a 2024 January Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant (AARG) Program. The Alzheimer’s Association has awarded funding of $200,000 for the project ‘Oral health: A window to improve systemic immune response in AD patients’. The grant will Czytaj więcej…
Silver medal for Hirszfeld Institute from WIIPA
We are proud to announce that the World Invention Intellectual Property Associations (WIIPA) has awarded the Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences a silver medal at the 2023 Kaohsiung International Invention & Design EXPO (30.11-2.12.2023, Kaohsiung, Taiwan). The award was given to the invention Czytaj więcej…
Ludwik Hirszfeld – a man with a capital M
The Polska Press website has published an interview with Pawel Wysoczanski – director of the film “Mensch”, which tells the story of Ludwik Hirszfeld, the patron of our Institute. The premiere of the film will take place on February 12 at Iluzjon Cinema in Warsaw. Link to the interview: https://plus.polskanews.pl/wysoczanski-ludwik-hirszfeld-to-czlowiek-przez-duze-c/ar/c15-18293279
Preview screening of the film “MENSCH” about Ludwik Hirszfeld in Belgrade
Last Thursday, December 21, a pre-premiere screening of the feature film “MENSCH” directed by Pawel Wysoczanski took place in Belgrade, Serbia. “MENSCH” is the story of Dr. Ludwik Hirszfeld, an exceptional physician, his belief in science and his willingness to help. It is a testimony of not giving up in difficult times Czytaj więcej…
Polish Quality Award Gala – BRONZE STATUE EUROPEAN QUALITY CERTIFICATE® 2022 for the Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences.
The culmination of the 26th edition of the Polish Quality Award 2023 was the awarding of medals and statuettes combined with the presentation of the QUALITY OF THE YEAR promotional emblem and EUROPEAN QUALITY CERTIFICATE® for 2022 and 2023. The event took place on December 12, 2023 in the historic spaces of Czytaj więcej…