The Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, together with the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), are organizing a series of online meetings with scientists from various fields who will answer questions related to the epidemic, vaccinations and general COVID-19 prophylaxis. 

The first meeting in the series “Coronavirus in the crosshairs” will be held on April 21 at 19 with Prof. Jerzy Duszyński, biochemist, president of the Polish Academy of Sciences, chairman of the interdisciplinary team for COVID-19. Its task is to monitor the course of the epidemic in Poland and to scientifically analyze possible scenarios of its development.

The members of the PAN team for COVID-19 are: Prof. Krzysztof Pyrć (Jagiellonian University), Dr Aneta Afelt (University of Warsaw), Prof. Radosław Owczuk (Medical University of Gdańsk), Dr  Anna Ochab-Marcinek (Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences), Dr Magdalena Rosińska (National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene), Prof. Andrzej Rychard (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) and Dr Tomasz Smiatacz (Medical University of Gdańsk).

They will be the guests of the next meetings in the series.