{"id":128527,"date":"2020-05-18T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=128527"},"modified":"2020-05-18T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:04:13","slug":"wroclaw-university-of-science-and-technology-receive-grants-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wroclaw-university-of-science-and-technology-receive-grants-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Wroclaw University of Science and Technology receive grants to fight COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prof. Marcin Dr\u0105g and Dr Eng. \u0141ukasz Berlicki from the chemical faculty of the Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology will receive over two million PLN for their research on COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The money is allocated by the National Science Center as part of a competition for scientists working on understanding the mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as well as improving diagnostic tests, searching for new drugs, and mitigating the social effects of a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Marcin Dr\u0105g received almost PLN 1.6 million for the project &#8220;Retargeting of known drugs for proteases participating in the development of COVID-19 disease&#8221;. Dr Eng. \u0141ukasz Berlicki received a grant of 465 thousand PLN for the project &#8220;Inhibitors of interaction of human ACE2 and S protein with SARS-CoV-2 based on peptide foldamers&#8221;.<br \/>\nMore: <a href=\"https:\/\/pwr.edu.pl\/uczelnia\/aktualnosci\/ponad-2-mln-zl-dla-naszych-naukowcow-na-badania-nad-covid-19-11579.html\">https:\/\/pwr.edu.pl\/uczelnia\/aktualnosci\/ponad-2-mln-zl-dla-naszych-naukowcow-na-badania-nad-covid-19-11579.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Marcin Dr\u0105g and Dr Eng. \u0141ukasz Berlicki from the chemical faculty of the Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology will receive over two million PLN for their research on COVID-19. The money is allocated by the National Science Center as part of a competition for scientists working on understanding the mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}