Prof. Barbara Klajnert-Maculewicz specializes in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology, biophysics, pharmacology and cellular biology. Publications of the researcher from Lodz have very high citation rates at the level of about 400 citations a year (data from Scopus datatbase). Prof. Klajnert-Maculewicz has conducted research at the University of Canada, on a permanent basis cooperates with the University of Lodz and she cooperates with Leibnitz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden as an external scientific member. She is a member of the Committee on Molecular Biology of the Cell, Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2018 she obtained funds for the project entitled: Cancer nanomedicine – from the bench to the bedside as part of a prestigious competition - European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).
The Council of the National Science Centre, among others, announces competitions for funding doctoral scholarships and traineeships after obtaining a PhD degree. It chooses members of the Team of Experts giving opinions on applications submitted under NCN competitions and determines the list of disciplines and the level of their funding. The Body plays a role of a coordinator of individual grant competitions organized and funded by the National Science Centre.
* National Science Centre (NCN)
NCN is a government agency, supervised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, set up in 2011 to support basic research in Poland. Basic research is defined as empirical or theoretical endeavours undertaken to gain new knowledge of the foundations of phenomena and observable facts, without any direct commercial use. NCN funds projects in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences and Engineering.
University of Lodz is one of the biggest universities in Poland. Its mission is to educate top-class scientists and specialists in numerous fields of humanities, social sciences, natural and exact sciences as well as health sciences. UniLodz cooperates with business, both at the staff level by providing qualified employees as well as at the scientific level, by offering its know-how to enterprises from various areas of economy. University of Lodz is an academic institution open to the world – the number of its international students is constantly growing, while its Polish students, thanks to Exchange programmes, get to know Europe, Asia and travel overseas. The University is a part of Lodz, it operates for and with the community of Lodz by getting involved in many socio-cultural projects.
Source: National Science Centre
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