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It is with great joy and pride that we announce that Dr. Emilia Jakubowska, assistant professor at PUMS' Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Industrial Pharmacy Division, has received a prestigious Maria Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship grant under Horizon Europe programme, in collaboration with Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze (University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague), Czech Republic.

During the 1.5-year-long postdoctoral fellowship under the supervision of Prof. Frantisek Stepanek, Dr. Jakubowska will undertake the project Advanced manufacturing of drug substances by co-processing with excipients through heteronucleation in a milifluidic device. The last stage of the research will concern the applicability in an industrial setting, in cooperation with Zentiva pharmaceutical company in Prague.

The project, submitted among over 8000 applications in the current MSCA-PF call, received the maximum possible evaluation score! The successful grant cooperation between the researcher from our University, the Czech academia and pharmaceutical company is a measurable long-term effect of the ORBIS project, completed in 2023. Poznan University of Medical Sciences coordinated the work of the international and intersectoral consortium where both University of Chemistry and Technology and Zentiva participated as partners.

Congratulations!