Dr Agnieszka Gajewicz, a specialist of chemoinformatics from the University of Gdańsk, became a laureate of the scholarship program L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women and Science. She was awarded for elaborating methods of assessing the risks of using nanoparticles in medicine. Chemoinformatics is a new field of knowledge combining mathematics, computer science, chemistry and theoretical physics.

A researcher from the University of Gdańsk deals with so-called cross-cutting estimation, which is one of the most important in silico methods. It uses IT techniques to evaluate the activity and properties of new chemical compounds and technologies as well as the risk of their use. Also it selects compounds suitable for drugs. In silico methods are cheaper and faster than traditional ones and they eliminate  experiments on animals. Such approach can reduce the number of animals used for testing up to 50% in Europe (Kp)

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