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How Interest in Phages Has Bloomed into a Leading Medical Research Activity in Poland
Poland has a leading position in phage therapy, as reflected by the number of patients treated and relevant publications in quality journals. The Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences was established by Ludwik Hirszfeld, a prominent microbiologist and ser...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9782212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36560621 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14122617 |
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author | Żaczek, Maciej Górski, Andrzej Grzybowski, Andrzej Pasternak, Edyta Weber-Dąbrowska, Beata Międzybrodzki, Ryszard |
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description | Poland has a leading position in phage therapy, as reflected by the number of patients treated and relevant publications in quality journals. The Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences was established by Ludwik Hirszfeld, a prominent microbiologist and serologist who also initiated studies on phages and pioneered the activities that set into motion phage therapy at the Institute. To achieve this goal, Hirszfeld had to overcome many difficulties in a post-war Poland. He died a month before the official start of the Institute’s activity and was not able to witness the advancement of the Institute bearing his name. However, his hard work and dedication have been recently rewarded. In a recent evaluation of scientific performance, the Institute received the highest ranking in medical sciences among all universities and research institutions in Poland. One could consider it a posthumous tribute to the memory of L. Hirszfeld, being well-deserved on the grounds of the Institute’s achievements (especially in the field of phage therapy) as well as his life and work. |
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spelling | pubmed-97822122022-12-24 How Interest in Phages Has Bloomed into a Leading Medical Research Activity in Poland Żaczek, Maciej Górski, Andrzej Grzybowski, Andrzej Pasternak, Edyta Weber-Dąbrowska, Beata Międzybrodzki, Ryszard Viruses Editorial Poland has a leading position in phage therapy, as reflected by the number of patients treated and relevant publications in quality journals. The Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences was established by Ludwik Hirszfeld, a prominent microbiologist and serologist who also initiated studies on phages and pioneered the activities that set into motion phage therapy at the Institute. To achieve this goal, Hirszfeld had to overcome many difficulties in a post-war Poland. He died a month before the official start of the Institute’s activity and was not able to witness the advancement of the Institute bearing his name. However, his hard work and dedication have been recently rewarded. In a recent evaluation of scientific performance, the Institute received the highest ranking in medical sciences among all universities and research institutions in Poland. One could consider it a posthumous tribute to the memory of L. Hirszfeld, being well-deserved on the grounds of the Institute’s achievements (especially in the field of phage therapy) as well as his life and work. MDPI 2022-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9782212/ /pubmed/36560621 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14122617 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Editorial Żaczek, Maciej Górski, Andrzej Grzybowski, Andrzej Pasternak, Edyta Weber-Dąbrowska, Beata Międzybrodzki, Ryszard How Interest in Phages Has Bloomed into a Leading Medical Research Activity in Poland |
title | How Interest in Phages Has Bloomed into a Leading Medical Research Activity in Poland |
title_full | How Interest in Phages Has Bloomed into a Leading Medical Research Activity in Poland |
title_fullStr | How Interest in Phages Has Bloomed into a Leading Medical Research Activity in Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | How Interest in Phages Has Bloomed into a Leading Medical Research Activity in Poland |
title_short | How Interest in Phages Has Bloomed into a Leading Medical Research Activity in Poland |
title_sort | how interest in phages has bloomed into a leading medical research activity in poland |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9782212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36560621 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14122617 |
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