BRAINCITY

The centre is implementing the project: „Nencki-EMBL Center of Excellence for Neural Plasticity and Brain Dis orders: BRAINCITY”. It conducts research into a compre hensive understanding of how the human brain, and its product - the mind, operate. The researchers hope to use this knowledge to develop innovative solutions which improve the prevention, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of brain diseases. This includes mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia, addic tions, as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.

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Project Creators

Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek, PhD
– Head of the Neurobiology Laboratory at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

He is a Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and Academia Europaea. He was Principal Investigator on more than 50 national and international research projects funded, among others, by the EU, NATO and the Wellcome Trust. He has worked as Contract Professor at the University of Catania (Italy) and as Visiting Professor at McGill University in Montreal (Canada), the University of California in Los Angeles and the Institute of Optics and Photonics in Castelldefels (Spain). Prof. Kaczmarek was awarded Foundation for Polish Science Prize in the field of natural and medical sciences for his research on the influence of various stimuli on gene expression in the mammalian brain. He also received the Prime Minister’s Award for lifetime achievements in science.

Ewelina Knapska, PhD
– Professor at the Nencki Institute

Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology of Emotion at the M. Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in WarsawShe graduated from the University of Warsaw with a master’s degree in biology and psychology, and obtained her PhD in neurobiology from the M. Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She completed a two-year fellowship at the University of Michigan, USA. She received her PhD Hab. degree in 2013. She received grants from the Foundation for Polish Science, the Minister of Education and Higher Education, National Science Center in Poland. In 2016, she was awarded the prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant. In 2018 she became a member of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence, a prestigious organisation for young brain scientists sponsored by The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and The Kavli Foundation.