Sum­ma­ry 2021

Three days of inspir­ing meet­ings, four­teen hours of online broad­cast­ing, twen­ty speak­ers and a total of near­ly one hun­dred and fifty par­tic­i­pants. The first inter­na­tion­al PORT for Health: Neu­ro­science con­fer­ence orga­nized by the Łukasiewicz Cen­ter for Life Sci­ences and Biotech­nol­o­gy — PORT has ended.

In mid-Octo­ber, Łukasiewicz — PORT host­ed over twen­ty of the most out­stand­ing sci­en­tists and doc­tors in the field of human health from Europe, the Unit­ed States and Chi­na. The con­fer­ence was divid­ed into three the­mat­ic blocks: affec­tive and neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal dis­eases and eat­ing dis­or­ders. The guests dis­cussed togeth­er basic mol­e­c­u­lar mech­a­nisms and the devel­op­ment of human dis­ease mod­els, the search for new drugs and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of inno­v­a­tive tar­get­ed ther­a­pies in per­son­al­ized medicine.

Our Insti­tute was rep­re­sent­ed by Michał Ślęzak, Ph.D. – leader of the Biol­o­gy of Astro­cytes Research Group, Witold Konop­ka, Ph.D. – leader of the Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Metab­o­lism Research Group, and Tomasz Prószyńs­ki, Ph.D. – leader of the Synap­to­ge­n­e­sis Research Group.

The PORT for Health: Neu­ro­science con­fer­ence last­ed from 13th to 15th Octo­ber and was held in a hybrid for­mu­la. It was the first inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence on the bor­der of med­i­cine orga­nized by Łukasiewicz — PORT.

The top­ic of next year’s con­fer­ence will be oncol­o­gy. See you in a year!