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Paulina Pietrasik-Stippa took over as Director of the Department of Commercialisation and Technology Transfer at the beginning of January 2025. Paulina is a manager with extensive experience in the public and private sectors.

As of 1 January 2025 - by decision of the President of the Łukasiewicz Centre - Zbigniew Rogulski, PhD, has taken up the position of Deputy Director for Research at our Institute.

Soon multiple sclerosis patients will have access to cheaper and more effective drugs. The technology developed in Poland for the production of cladribine tablets will bring a real breakthrough to the market, increasing access to effective treatment.

Increasing the scale and quality of commercialization processes and speeding them up - these are among the benefits of implementing the strategy, as pointed out by Dr. Hubert Cichocki, president of the Lukasiewicz Research Network, during today's meeting with employees of Lukasiewicz - Industrial Chemistry Institute.

Construction of the Mościcki Campus begins at the Łukasiewicz - Industrial Chemistry Institute. Poland is gaining a unique research and development centre on a European scale, which will consolidate the country's potential in chemistry, pharmacy and biotechnology.

We are very pleased to announce that Ewa Śmigiera, Ph.D., Eng., Director of Łukasiewicz - ICI, has been appointed as a member of the Council of the Polish Chamber of Chemical Industry (PIPC). In the largest organisation, representing the entire industry on the national and international arena, she will support activities for the development of the Polish chemistry.

According to the latest edition of the Stanford University report, Prof Urszula Domańska-Zelazna is once again among the 2% most cited scientists in the world.

The highest quality of hydrogen is crucial for the durability and efficiency of fuel cells. It will be guarded by Łukasiewicz - ICI experts, who will check all its properties and optimise its production process in the newly opened laboratory.

The Product Technology Park, Pharmacokinetics, Hydrogen and Biotechnology and Vinyl Polymer Laboratories are just some of the stops on the Łukasiewicz - ICI tour by special guest Prof. Dr. Maria Mrówczyńska, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education, who visited our Institute on July 30, 2024.

What do you know about powder coatings? Certainly that powder coatings do not emit VOCs, meet the criteria set for coating products by modern industry, such as environmental compliance... But... They can always be improved. This is the topic that researchers have addressed in the publication (TOP 10 Scopus) "Antimicrobial Powder Coatings Based on Environmentally Friendly Biocides," ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. Co-authors of the paper are Michał Kędzierski, Ph.D. Sc. Eng., and Katarzyna Bieniek, M.Sc. Eng., of the Polymer Synthesis and Modification Section.