Prof. Marcin Nowotny, Head of the Laboratory of Protein Structure, Natalia Szulc and Pankaj Thapa from the Laboratory of Protein Metabolism are laureates of the OPUS 21 and PRELUDIUM 20 schemes financed by the National Science Centre (NCN). Additionally, Dr. Vladimir Korzh from the Laboratory of Neurodegeneration will act as a partner in a consortium led by the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing.

Our laureates:

Prof. Marcin Nowotny

• Project title: Structural and mechanistic studies of replication of (+)ssRNA viruses

• Funding: 2 684 000 PLN

• Scheme: OPUS 21

• Panel: NZ1 (first place on the ranking list within panel NZ1)

Dr. Vladimir Korzh (partner)

• Coordinator: Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing

• Project title: Building a genomic atlas of human inner ear malformations: focus on novel genes and functional non-coding regions

• Total budget: 2 986 560 PLN

• Scheme: OPUS

• Panel: NZ5

Natalia Szulc

• Project title: Living on the edge: evolutionary adaptation of substrate-recruiting subunits of the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase complexes to avoid premature degradation

• Funding: 190 770 PLN

• Scheme: PRELUDIUM 20

• Panel: NZ1

Pankaj Thapa

• Project title: Deciphering the molecular mechanism of activity switch of the ubiquitin ligase CHIP

• Funding: 132 126 PLN

• Scheme: PRELUDIUM 20

• Panel: NZ1

The full list of laureates is available on the NCN website.