Last night, the ICRI-BioM family came together to celebrate an incredible year of achievements.

On Wednesday 13th November 2024, a ceremonial session of the Senate of the Lodz University of Technology took place during which distinctions and medals were awarded to TUL employees, as well as prizes for the best TUL students and graduates. ICRI-BioM was there as well!

Mr. William Mawuko Kodzo Siegu, a Ph.D. student involved in the HELVA project, recently captivated audiences with his insightful research on an innovative preculturing strategy designed to boost the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) using sodium acetate as the unique carbon source. His presentation took place at the Biocatalysis Conference for Biological Transformation Along Renewable Value Chains, held from November 18 to 20, 2024, in Düsseldorf, Germany. This conference brought together an impressive array of biomanufacturing industry leaders, including representatives from Michelin (France), BYK Chemie GmbH, Repsol Technology (Spain), and AstraZeneca (Sweden), as well as esteemed academics and donor organizations from North Rhine-Westphalia.

On Tuesday last week (29th of October), we were privileged to host in ICRI-BioM Prof. Róża Szweda, Head of the Programmable Polymers Laboratory (Center for Advanced Materials, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, PL).

During previous three weeks (7th – 25th of October), we were hosting Guillaume Michaluszko from IPCMS (Institut de physique et chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, France), our partner in the Polish-French NAWA project entitled “New organic near-infrared luminophores exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF): synthesis, spectroscopy and optoelectronic devices”.

On Thursday 5th of September 2024 we had a special day in the history of ICRI-BioM. On that day, Mr. Adam Pawłowski from the Nanostructures and Interfaces Group defended his Master thesis, entitled: “Preparation and characterization of new bio-inspired organic luminophores with potential chiroptical properties"