Projects funded by the NCN

Is near-term quantum supremacy feasible? A runtime-based investigation

Call: SONATA BIS 15 , Panel: ST6

Principal investigator: dr hab. Łukasz Piotr Pawela

Instytut Informatyki Teoretycznej i Stosowanej PAN

Is ADP-ribosylation involved in the response to DNA double-strand breaks? An investigation employing the CRISPR-Cas9 sys...

Call: PRELUDIUM 24 , Panel: NZ3

Principal investigator: Weronika Justyna Pawluś

Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Gender-based violence is not inevitable: From women's rights advocacy to public policies on primary prevention of violen...

Call: PRELUDIUM 24 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: Agata Małgorzata Teutsch

Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Translation is Not Enough (TINE): Plain Language Adaptation of Multilingual Science

Call: CHIST-ERA Call 2025 , Panel: ST6

Principal investigator: dr Łukasz Maciej Kobyliński

Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN

Where Inhibition is not Enough- Development of Innovative Compounds for Targeted Degradation of Extracellular and Membra...

Call: OPUS 28 (LAP) , Panel: NZ5

Principal investigator: dr Marcin Skoreński

Politechnika Wrocławska

Is organ-on-a-chip technology able to reduce animal sacrifice in studies on radiosensitizers?

Call: OPUS 27 , Panel: ST4

Principal investigator: prof. Janusz Adam Rak

Uniwersytet Gdański

Post-pandemic countryside. Is Polish farming in perpetual crisis? The case of Podlachian foodways

Call: OPUS 27 , Panel: HS3

Principal investigator: dr Joanna Mroczkowska

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Is metformin having a cardioprotective role in mouse model of autoimmune myocarditis. Evaluation of the mechanism of act...

Call: SONATA 19 , Panel: NZ7

Principal investigator: dr Monika Marta Stefańska

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Centrum Nanobiomedyczne

β4-integrin is a guardian of nuclear integrity and chromatin accessibility limitingprostate cancer progression

Call: SONATA 19 , Panel: NZ2

Principal investigator: dr Tomasz Jacek Wenta

Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Biologii

Is there an escape from antibioticresistant ESKAPE pathogens present in wastewater - the importance of last-chance antib...

Call: SONATA 19 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Katarzyna Natalia Grudlewska-Buda

Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Collegium Medicum im. Ludwika Rydygiera w Bydgoszczy

How is meiotic TEX12 re-activated in cancer and can we exploit this in the clinic?

Call: SONATA BIS 13 , Panel: NZ3

Principal investigator: dr Urszula Łucja Mcclurg

Instytut Biologii Medycznej PAN

Physiological significance and clinical implications of global and local inhibition of NRF2 transcriptional activity in ...

Call: SONATA BIS 13 , Panel: NZ4

Principal investigator: dr hab. Aleksandra Barbara Piechota-Polańczyk

Uniwersytet Medyczny w Łodzi, Wydział Lekarski

Possibilities and directions of limiting spatial mobility in large cities in Poland - what is left of transportation beh...

Call: OPUS 25 , Panel: HS4

Principal investigator: prof. Tomasz Władysław Komornicki

Instytut Geografii i Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania im. S. Leszczyckiego PAN

An animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animal relations in American experimental ecocinema

Call: OPUS 25 , Panel: HS2

Principal investigator: dr Kornelia Agnieszka Boczkowska

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Anglistyki

Is reality purely qualitative? An analysis of individualist and qualitativist accounts of nature of individuals and stru...

Call: SONATINA 7 , Panel: HS1

Principal investigator: dr Karol Zachariasz Lenart

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Filozofii

Evolutionary origin of predetermined germ plasm in insects - is the germ plasm a descendant of the posterior pole ooplas...

Call: OPUS 24 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: prof. Szczepan Maria Biliński

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Biologii

Making is Connecting. A study of the material and social worlds of DIY makers centered around makerspaces.

Call: OPUS 23 , Panel: HS2

Principal investigator: dr hab. Jacek Gądecki

Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie, Wydział Humanistyczny

Who is pulling the strings? The importance of nutrition in a host-parasite system

Call: POLONEZ BIS 2 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr Eniko Csata

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN

Are drying methods in fact changing the content of non-volatile compounds in plant materials - the question is still ope...

Call: PRELUDIUM 21 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Natalia Pachura-Hanusek

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu

The way to a man's past is through his stomach - paleoparasitological analysis of the Early Modern Period cemetery at Lu...

Call: PRELUDIUM 21 , Panel: HS3

Principal investigator: dr Aleksandra Grzegorska

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Archeologii

Molecular implications of gut microbiota disorders in the context of the immune system functioning in patients with prim...

Call: OPUS 23 , Panel: NZ6

Principal investigator: prof. Ewelina Pia Grywalska

Uniwersytet Medyczny w Lublinie

Why in some cities spending on public health programs is generous? A fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of...

Call: PRELUDIUM 21 , Panel: HS5

Principal investigator: Wojciech Dominik Gędek

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych

Electrochemistry is the cornerstone of selective water desalination, carbon dioxide capture, and energy transition.

Call: Polskie Powroty NAWA 2020 , Panel: ST5

Principal investigator: dr Sławomir Porada

Politechnika Wrocławska

Ecosystem services, invasive alien species and agronomy. Can we abandon agricultural land for native biodiversity and ec...

Call: SONATA 17 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr Magdalena Lidia Lenda

Instytut Ochrony Przyrody PAN

Is the loss of plant resistance to toxic metals associated with seed microbiome?

Call: OPUS 22 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: dr hab. Rafał Ważny

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Małopolskie Centrum Biotechnologii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

"Let's dry up and survive together": is anhydrobiosis in water bears (Tardigrades)modulated by a specific microbiome com...

Call: SONATA 17 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Monika Anna Mioduchowska

Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Biologii

Nanospectroscopic imaging of native biological membranes: Is the cell membrane the key for understanding the mechanism o...

Call: SONATA BIS 11 , Panel: ST4

Principal investigator: dr Katarzyna Pogoda

Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej im. Henryka Niewodniczańskiego PAN

What is the future of marine microplankton in the face of modern climate change - a story read from a Cretaceous fossil ...

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: dr hab. Marta Bąk

Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie, Wydział Geologii, Geofizyki i Ochrony Środowiska

Is metabolic effect of copper nanoparticles reliant on dietary fibre with different physiological function?

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: prof. Jerzy Juśkiewicz

Instytut Rozrodu Zwierząt i Badań Żywności PAN

What is the contribution of near- and far-field properties of gold nanoparticles to the enhancement of singlet oxygen ge...

Call: PRELUDIUM 20 , Panel: ST4

Principal investigator: Paulina Błaszkiewicz

Politechnika Poznańska, Wydział Inżynierii Materiałowej i Fizyki Technicznej

Is "the plastic brain" a real threat? In search of neurotoxic mechanisms of plastic nanoparticles.

Call: OPUS 21 , Panel: NZ7

Principal investigator: prof. Lidia Marta Strużyńska

Instytut Medycyny Doświadczalnej i Klinicznej im. Mirosława Mossakowskiego PAN

Is there a synergistic effect of plant surfactants and antibiotics against bacterial cells?

Call: OPUS 20 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: prof. Ewa Kaczorek

Politechnika Poznańska, Wydział Technologii Chemicznej

Is it fake? How meaning, attention, and emotions shape perceived authenticity of photojournalistic photographs.

Call: OPUS 20 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: dr hab. Michał Kuniecki

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Filozoficzny

Bathymetry designs in water waves systems - is nature more efficient than a human?

Call: SONATA 16 , Panel: ST8

Principal investigator: dr Tomasz Marcin Bobiński

Politechnika Warszawska, Wydział Mechaniczny Energetyki i Lotnictwa

The present is the key to the past - non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) as a proxy for herbivore impact on vegetation in the...

Call: OPUS 19 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: prof. Bogdan Jaroszewicz

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Biologii

Is mitonuclear co-adaptation a driver of amphibian speciation?

Call: OPUS 19 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Maciej Pabijan

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Biologii

Where is your pain? Classically conditioned spatial dimension of pain in humans

Call: OPUS 19 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: dr Wacław Marceli Adamczyk

Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. Jerzego Kukuczki w Katowicach, Instytut Badawczo-Rozwojowy Fizjoterapii i Nauk o Zdrowiu

What is what in the phylum Glomeromycota?

Call: PRELUDIUM 19 , Panel: NZ9

Principal investigator: Piotr Niezgoda

Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie, Wydział Kształtowania Środowiska i Rolnictwa

Provenance investigations of ancient iron slag in what is now Poland – a preliminary study

Call: OPUS 19 , Panel: HS3

Principal investigator: dr hab. Grzegorz Żabiński

Akademia im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie, Wydział Humanistyczny

Is it all about sustainability? Unpacking the framework of fare-free public transport policy

Call: PRELUDIUM 19 , Panel: HS4

Principal investigator: Daniel Štraub

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Geografii i Geologii

Is there a 'greening' of Catholicism in Poland and Italy? Catholic organisations in the face of climate change and envir...

Call: OPUS 19 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: dr hab. Marcin Jewdokimow

Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

Is semantic structuralism necessarily set-theoretic structuralism? Methods of representation in Steven French's ontic st...

Call: ETIUDA 8 , Panel: HS1

Principal investigator: dr Agnieszka Maria Proszewska

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Filozoficzny

Your back is lopsided!" - The effect of verbal suggestion and experimental pain on body image

Call: PRELUDIUM 18 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: dr Aleksandra Budzisz

Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. Jerzego Kukuczki w Katowicach

Is recurring irrationality adaptively rational? The role of numeracy and adaptive strategy selection in decisions under ...

Call: PRELUDIUM BIS 1 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: dr hab. Jakub Traczyk

Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej w Warszawie

Why is art so expensive? An analysis of sources of artworks value in contemporary capitalism

Call: PRELUDIUM 18 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: Feliks Tuszko

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Socjologii

"RAW – Retreat And Wither" – What is the influence of glaciers recession from tidewater to land-based on the marine biol...

Call: GRIEG 1 , Panel: ST10

Principal investigator: dr Mateusz Juliusz Moskalik

Instytut Geofizyki PAN

Is revenge "sweet"? Examining the role of anticipated pleasure from revenge on retaliatory behavior

Call: PRELUDIUM 17 , Panel: HS6

Principal investigator: Karolina Wioleta Dyduch-Hazar

Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej w Warszawie, Wydział Zamiejscowy w Poznaniu

Failures and Public Policy: The possible, the contingent and the chance in the Polish context

Call: OPUS 17 , Panel: HS5

Principal investigator: dr hab. Adriana Diana Mica

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych i Resocjalizacji

Linking individual plants masting behavior with their reproductive success. Is mast seeding under genetic control?

Call: OPUS 17 , Panel: NZ8

Principal investigator: dr hab. Magdalena Anna Żywiec

Instytut Botaniki im. Władysława Szafera PAN

Characteristics of cyanobacterial DnaJ homologue that is responsible for binding the RuBisCO large subunit.

Call: PRELUDIUM 17 , Panel: NZ3

Principal investigator: Małgorzata Rydzy

Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wydział Biotechnologii