Dr hab. Magdalena Król, prof. WULS-SGGW was among the fifty-five fellows European Council for Research People who have received Proof of Concept ERC grants to test the commercial or social potential of their research results. The grants are part of the EU’s research and innovation program, Horizon 2020.

Award-winning projects cover a wide variety of topics, eg faster and cheaper approaches to the detection of pathogenic microorganisms; low power and energy hearing implants; or developing a sustainable social business to manage and ethically disseminate transferred DNA data to scientists.

Prof. dr hab. Magdalena Król is a specialist in the field of experimental oncology. Her work has been appreciated and awarded many times. She received, among others the Ministry of Science and Higher Education scholarship for outstanding young scientists, the Pfizer Animal Health scholarship, the L’Oreal postdoctoral scholarship and the Unesco award for women, as well as distinctions of the Polish Society of Veterinary Sciences. In 2016, received the prestigious Starting Grant of the European Council for Research (ERC) with a value of EUR 1.4 million.

A film about the research of prof. King

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