Wojciech Pokrzywa, Head of the Laboratory of Protein Metabolism in Development and Aging, received an EMBO Small Grant worth 10 000 € to purchase an essential instrument for the operation of his laboratory. Dr. Pokrzywa could benefit from this additional funding as the EMBO Installation Grantee. Since 2018, Dr. Pokrzywa implements the EMBO IG titled: “Identification of signals coordinating the proteolytic quality control networks”.