The Platinum Team Foundation is joining forces with G4PL in the month of World Batten Disease Day
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.
G4PL’s debut at the ESHG 2026 conference
Tym razem gospodarzem największej konferencji genetycznej w Europie, organizowanej co roku przez Europejskie Towarzystwo Genetyki Człowieka (European Society of Human Genetics, ESHG), była Szwecja. W dniach 13-16 czerwca 2026 miasto Goteborg
Second round of sample collection for the G4PL project – over 140 samples collected in Poznań
Po udanej pierwszej rundzie w Pałacu w Turwi, zorganizowaliśmy drugą akcję zbierania próbek do projektu G4PL. W sobotę 30 maja do siedziby Instytutu Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN zgłosiło się ponad 140 osób chętnych do udziału w projekcie.
The G4PL project is gaining momentum: the first 77 blood samples were collected during the ‘Picnic at the General’s’ in Turwia
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 – In partnership with OPEN Biobank, we are beginning to collect samples for the project
22 maja 2026 r. podpisaliśmy pierwszą umowę o współpracy z partnerem pobierającym materiał biologiczny. Jest nim poznański Biobank OPEN…
DNA Day – International DNA Day
April 25, 1953, is one of the most significant dates in the history of science. It was then that the world learned that DNA, the molecule that carries our genetic information, has a double-helix structure. It wasn’t until half a century later that the success of the Human Genome Project was announced. Today, DNA Day is not only a celebration for biologists, but also an opportunity to reflect on how 3 billion base pairs influence our health and lives.
About G4PL at the Human Genome Meeting 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 showcased the latest research findings in human genomics from around the world, including work on the T2T (Telomere-to-Telomere) pangenome (Karen Miga, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), the genome of Asia (Wan Yue, A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore), the European genome (Andre Uitterlinden, Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands), and the links between the genome and the phenotype (Mike Snyder, Stanford University, USA). Strategies and new methods for analyzing genomic data were presented (including John Quackenbush, Harvard University, Harvard School of Public Health, USA).
Results of genetic research on the Piasts published in Nature Communications journal
The long-awaited paper presenting the results of genetic research on the Piasts has finally been published in Nature Communications.
Approval from the Bioethics Committee
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 (G4PL)” project. We can now begin collecting samples; more information on this will follow shortly.
International Rare Disease Day
Dzień Chorób Rzadkich to wyjątkowe święto, które tradycyjnie obchodzimy w ostatnim dniu lutego. Wybór daty nie jest przypadkowy – w latach przestępnych przypada on 29 lutego. To najrzadszy dzień w kalendarzu, więc idealnie symbolizuje rzadkość schorzeń, z jakimi zmagają się pacjenci. W tym roku to nietypowe święto przypada 28 lutego.