Young researchers from Medical University of Lodz were awarded  Diamond Grants by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education. It is one of the most prestigious programmes in which its winners receive money for their research and can also compress their scientific career path by skipping the MA level and apply directly for PhD degree.

This year’s Diamond Grant winners include:

1. Agata Gabryelska – HIF-1alfa as a modifiable factor of insulin resistance in obstructive sleep apnea sufferers
2. Anna Puła – The application of circulating miRNA in plasma profile as biomarkers of resistance to proteasome inhibitors in  multiple myeloma patients.               
3. Arkadiusz Michalak – The search for monogenic forms of autoimmune diseases accompanied by Type 1 Diabetes.

Full list of the winners is available here.

Every year the top hundred people receive grants for their own scientific research. Thanks to the programme, nearly over 500 outstanding students can make their scientific dreams come true. So far, since the moment the programme was launched,  the career of young scientists was supported by the state with 63,3 mln PLN.