A consortium led by Dr. Marcin Nowotny, Head of the Laboratory of Protein Structure was distinguished by the National Science Centre with a prestigious grant of 6 879 968 PLN within the SYMFONIA 2 Programme. Dr. Nowotny received a funding for a project entitled “Mitochondrial RNA decay and surveillance - comprehensive interdisciplinary studies”. The project will be carried out in a consortium with the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (Group Leader: Dr. Roman Józef Szczęsny), Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw (Group Leader: Prof. Paweł Zygmunt Golik) and Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw (Group Leader: Dr. Bartosz Wilczyński).

SYMFONIA is a funding opportunity intended for exceptional established researchers wanting to carry out interdisciplinary or cross-domain research in collaboration with teams representing different areas of research.