Institute Structure Events PhD students Projects contact Institute About us Statute and Regulations Scientific Council KNOW medical Center Center of Excellence Local Ethics Committee Reports and Publications Director's orders Print patterns To download Emblem / Logo post office IT Department Job offers contact About us photo by J.Mierzecka The Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy was founded in 1952 by the Polish Academy of Sciences. The main founder and first director of the Institute was Professor Ludwik Hirszfeld, a famous Polish immunologist and microbiologist. The Institute is authorized to confer doctoral and postdoctoral degrees in biological sciences in the field of biology. In accordance with the applicable provisions of the Central Statistical Office of Poland (GUS), the average annual employment is 201 employees, including 70 research workers. Institute authorities Director: dr hab. Jacek Rybka Deputy Director for Research: dr hab. Jolanta Łukasiewicz Deputy Director for Administrative Affairs: mgr Dariusz Wójcik Chairman of the Scientific Council: prof. dr hab. Maciej Zabel Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council: prof. dr hab. Czesław Ługowski International Advisory Board of IITD PAN Jean Francois Bach , Secretaire Perpetuel, French Academy of Sciences, Department of Immunology, Hopital Necker, Paris, France Michael Goldman , Department of Immunology, Hopital Erasme, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium John A. Hansen , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center & University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA J. Kupiec-Weglinski , Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Gerhard Opelz , Institute of Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Germany Emil Skamene , The Research Institute, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Hans-Dieter Volk , Institute of Medical Immunology, Medical University of Berlin, Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany Claudine Kieda , Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orleans, France Historical documents Ludwik Hirszfeld , The Struggle of the Invisible and the Invisible , lecture given at the 1st Annual Public Meeting of the Wrocław Scientific Society, March 7, 1948 Solidarity at the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1980-1989 contact © Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences