Please join a meeting with Marcin Magierowski to be held on 4 December at 6 pm. The NCN Award winner will deliver a lecture in a series organised by the National Science Centre and the Copernicus Center.
Prof. Marcin Magierowski conducts multidisciplinary research in the biomedicine discipline. The main focus of his research is the beneficial effects of molecules considered harmful to life. A researcher from the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical College of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow received the 2024 NCN Award in Life Sciences.
He will talk about beneficial “poisons” at the meeting on 4 December, which will take place under the “Science at the Center” series. ”It will be a story about how much wisdom there is in the saying ‘don't judge a book by its cover’. The research inquisitiveness of many biomedical researchers in recent years has radically changed the perspective on the gaseous molecules – hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide, which were commonly considered as toxic. As a result, today we know that these molecules are produced in small quantities by our cells and have a number of protective and healing functions. Pharmacological compounds, on the other hand, capable of releasing them, may potentially serve as a new tool in the treatment of various conditions, particularly within the gastrointestinal tract, which time will ultimately verify”, the researcher announces in his lecture.
The meeting will begin at 6 pm and will be broadcast live on the Copernicus Center channel. During the meeting, questions can be asked in the chat room.
This year's “Science at the Center” lecture series began with a meeting with Wiktor Lewandowski followed by a lecture given by Błażej Skrzypulec. You can also listen to Wiktor Lewandowski on the NCN podcast.
The online lectures, organised jointly with the Copernicus Center, began with meetings with the 2020 NCN Award winners. So far, we have completed sw Recordings of all lectures are available on our YouTube channel.