News
29 June, 2026
The collaboration between the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of
Sciences (IBCH PAS) and the Platinum Team Foundation has now been formalised.
22 June, 2026
This year, Sweden hosted Europe’s largest genetics conference, organised annually by the
European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG)...
2 June, 2026
Following a successful first round at the Palace in Turwia, we organised a second sample
collection event for the G4PL project. On Saturday 30 May, over 140 people turned up at the
headquarters of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences…
23 May, 2026
The collaboration between the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of
Sciences and the OPEN Biobank in Poznań has already yielded its first results.
22 May, 2026
On 22 May 2026, we signed our first cooperation agreement with a partner specialising in
the collection of biological material. This partner is OPEN Biobank, based in Poznań…
25 April, 2026
April 25, 1953, is one of the most significant dates in the history of science. It was on that
day that the world learned that DNA, the molecule that carries our genetic information, has a
double-helix structure. Only then …
23 April, 2026
The Human Genome Meeting 2026, an international conference organized by the Human
Genome Organization (HUGO), took place in Athens from April 22–24. The conference
featured the latest research findings…
9 April, 2026
The long-awaited paper presenting the results of genetic research on the Piasts has finally
been published in Nature Communications.
18 March, 2026
At its meeting on March 18, 2026, the Bioethics Committee of the Regional Medical Council
of the Wielkopolska Medical Chamber reviewed our proposal and issued a favorable opinion
on the “Genomics for Poland” project…
28 February, 2026
International Rare Disease Day is a special occasion that we traditionally celebrate on the
last day of February. The choice of date is no coincidence - in leap years, it falls on February
29. It is the rarest day in …
16 February, 2026
Twenty-five years ago, the world heard: “We’ve got it!” The first map of human DNA was no
longer a science-fiction dream—it had become a reality. It was not just a scientific
achievement and a milestone in the history of bio...
23 January, 2026
We’ve just held the kick-off meeting to launch the project. The English term perfectly
captures the idea and purpose of this type of meeting, which is to present the project’s
objectives...
17 December, 2025
According to the plan outlined in the application, the project was scheduled to be completed
in January 2026, but the contract was signed before Christmas 2025. A date was also set for
the kick-off meeting...
31 October, 2025
The day the competition results were announced was a happy one for us. The G4PL project
was among the top projects selected for funding in the second call for proposals for ...
4 July, 2025
The two months that have passed since the meeting in Poznań have been a period of
intense work on the proposal. The entire voluminous documentation was tirelessly overseen
by ...
30 April, 2025
The decision to form a consortium and draft a joint project was made during a meeting of
representatives from 12 academic and research institutions in Poznań. The meeting took
place on April 30, 2025, at ...