Management at Read-Gene share the increasingly widespread belief that cancer is genetically-rooted and that cancer prevention could be more effective if it were directed at cancer-triggering genes.

”We receive much more funding for R&D per one scientist than all other schools of higher learning in Poland. And industry does not commission research work for results to be put on ice”, said Professor Brigadier General Zygmunt Mierczyk PhD. Eng., rector of the Military University of Technology (WAT) in Warsaw in an exclusive statement for Polish Market.

There is hope that the Polish R&D sector will improve its effectiveness fast thanks to research and development centres run by the state. Will the on-going reorganisation and financing reform of the whole R&D sector yield expected results? We put these questions to Professor Leszek Rafalski, chairman of the Main Council of R&D organizations.

Our work is noticed and appreciated, proof of which is the creation in the city of Krakow of PolandPlus, the country’s first national Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), under the EU’s European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

The Institute of High Pressure Physics UNIPRESS in Warsaw is famous worldwide for its unique method of high pressure Gallium Nitride (GaN) crystal growth, which has led to the development of the blue laser technology in Poland. The Institute’s Director Professor Sylwester Porowski talks to “Polish Market” about the centre’s many trail-blazing inventions.

More and more foreign students choose Warsaw as their place of study. Warsaw Deputy Mayor WODZIMIERZ PASZYŃSKI and MIROSŁAW SIELATYCKI, Deputy Director of the Warsaw Magistrate’s Office for Education, tell “Polish Market’s” Maciek Proliński about the city’s offer for foreign students and what they contribute to its life.

Current research and development funding reforms are likely to transform Poland into a country that attracts foreign research workers, according to Professor Barbara Kudrycka, Polish minister of science and higher learning.

A World Centre for Partial Deafness Treatment will soon emerge in Kajetany near Warsaw. It will be completed at a cost of PLN123 million. Two thirds of the expense will be covered by the EU.