On 4 October 2017, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Group for Identification based on DNA (GRID), a newly-established research consortium headed by NCU Collegium Medicum, and the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).
On 4 October 2017, a formal agreement on cooperation was signed at the Janusz Kurtyka Educational Centre in Warsaw between the newly-established research consortium referred to as the Group for Identification based on DNA (GRID) and the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN). The consortium has been created to provide the IPN with specialist services and expert opinions in the scope of genetic identification.
We are proud to announce that the GRID consortium will be led by NCU Collegium Medicum and will operate from genetic and forensic laboratories of six medical universities, including the Medical University of Białystok, the Poznań University of Medical Sciences, the Wrocław Medical University, the Medical University of Lublin and the Medical University of Warsaw. Activities of this special task force will be supervised by prof. dr hab. Tomasz Grzybowski, head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of NCU Collegium Medicum.
The agreement was signed by prof. dr hab. Grażyna Odrowąż-Sypniewska, the Vice-Rector for Collegium Medicum, and dr hab. Krzysztof Szwagrzyk, Deputy President of the IPN.
The GRID consortium will provide research services and expert opinions related to the identification of victims of the struggle for the independence and unification of the Polish Nation, as well as those killed in the fight against the enforced totalitarian rule and repression, or due to ethnic cleansing in the period between 8 November 1917 and 31 July 1990.
More information about the mission of the Institute of National Remembrance, as well as a brief history of Poland under Communist rule, can be found on the official website of IPN
photo 1-5 taken by: Marcin Jurkiewicz (IPN)
Photo 6-8 taken by: Marcin Woźniak (NCU CM)