Near-infrared light is invisible to humans. And yet, under the right conditions, the human eye can perceive it. Researchers from the International Centre for Translational Eye Research (ICTER) have now shown that the efficiency of this phenomenon depends not only on the laser pulse itself, but also on two highly specific factors: the beam diameter […]
It still works – publishing, patenting, developing technologies used across Europe. But it is increasingly clear that Polish science is operating at the limits of its capacity. Adam Kubas, Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS, says it plainly: a system that was meant to support science is now beginning to hold it back.
Drug discovery still too often relies on expensive trial and error. Researchers from ICTER show there is another way – building molecules step by step and observing their behavior at atomic resolution. This approach could significantly speed up the development of new therapies while reducing side effects.
Researchers from ICTER are among the authors of the latest volume of the Handbook of Visual Optics, edited by Prof. Pablo Artal – one of the most important contemporary references on vision technology and ophthalmic diagnostics.
Polish science does not need bigger budgets alone. It needs a better system – one that does not disperse talent, overburden people, and finally begins to treat science as a collective effort rather than a sum of individual struggles for survival.
A new method developed with the participation of ICTER researchers shows that, in retinal imaging, less can mean more – fewer settings, fewer complications, and more information.
On March 26, 2026, ICTER hosted its first-ever MAB FENG Reporting and Planning Meeting. What began as an effort to structure research plans quickly evolved into something more – a space for real collaboration, honest confrontation of assumptions, and the identification of shared directions.
There are places in Poland that operate at a genuinely world-class level – but they do so in conditions that make it systematically hard to build anything that lasts. In a Candela Foundation podcast, Anna Pawlus, Managing Director of ICTER, speaks candidly about the problem: Poland still lacks a clear definition of what “Centres of […]
11.05.2026 
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