Dr. Agnieszka Krawczyk-Łebek from the Department of Food Chemistry and Biocatalysis was awarded the Gold Medal at the 16th International Exhibition of Inventions 'IWIS 2022', while the title of Best Polish Invention was awarded to new flavonoid glycosides with potential antimicrobial activity that she managed to obtain using biotransformation.
https://upwr.edu.pl/en/news/the-best-polish-invention-award-is-ours-503.html
Opus 19 – scientists from UPWr have obtained a total of nearly 4.5 million PLN for projects financed from the National Science Centre (NCN) program. They will search for new antimicrobial compounds, work on wax biosynthesis, and integrate tropospheric observations using ground and satellite GNSS observations.
https://upwr.edu.pl/en/news/opus-19-and-45-million-pln-for-research-270.html
Interest in long-forgotten and little-known plants has been growing in recent years, with many of them rich in bioactive compounds that could be used, among others, in the prevention of civilisation diseases – says Igor Turkiewicz from the Department of Fruit, Vegetables and Plant Nutraceuticals Technology at the UPWr. – Science confirms what has been known in folk medicine for centuries.
https://upwr.edu.pl/en/news/diamonds-among-leaves-467.html
Karolina Tkacz and Igor Turkiewicz – MSc students of professor Aneta Wojdyło from the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Science – received “Diamond Grants”, that is 220 thousand PLN for research and as remuneration.
https://upwr.edu.pl/en/news/diamond-grants-for-upwr-students-219.html