Dr. Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka, Dr. Barbara Uszczyńska-Ratajczak and Dr. Maria Almudena Ponce Salvatierra are laureates of the National Science Centre (NCN) competitions.

Laureates and their projects:

- Dr. Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka, Head of the Laboratory of Iron Homeostasis received funding for the project “Deciphering novel mechanisms that control iron sensing and iron accumulation in the liver”, 1 778 635 PLN, OPUS

- Dr. Barbara Uszczyńska-Ratajczak was awarded for the project “Shedding new light on genome's dark matter: identification of novel long non-coding RNAs in zebrafish”, 1 896 000 PLN, OPUS. She will join the Laboratory of Zebrafish Developmental Genomics

- Dr. Maria Almudena Ponce Salvatierra, Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering received funding for the project “Bridging the gap: DNA catalysis explained”, 1 247 150 PLN, SONATA