Business - Innovations - Technology (BIT of WUT)

The Faculty of Materials Engineering is launching an international research project called ‘RETIN-A-EYE – Machine Learning Platform for Personalised Intravitreal Anti‑VEGF Therapy Using Drug‑Loaded Polymeric Nanoparticles’. The project is funded by the National Science Centre under the M‑ERA.NET 3 Call 2025 programme.

The research will use Organ-on-Chip technology

At the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography of Warsaw University of Technology, the project "Historical Earth Research for Multitemporal Evolution Study by Remote Sensing technique (HERMES)" is being carried out. The initiative focuses on developing a modern, fully automated method for analysing archival aerial photographs using artificial intelligence.

At the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology, an innovative R&D project entitled “Development of an Inertial Navigation Support System for High-Spin Objects (NeuroNavi)” is currently underway. The project is led by Dawid Florczak, MSc, and has received funding under the renowned LIDER XV programme of the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR). It represents an important step towards developing independent, nationally developed (sovereign) navigation technologies for rocket and unmanned systems.

Researchers collaborating within the STAR experiment, conducted at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, have obtained breakthrough results concerning the structure of the quantum vacuum and the dynamics of strong interactions. The findings have been published in Nature.

Everyday problems often inspire revolutionary solutions. This was the case for Łukasz Bereś, a doctoral student at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, who created a vehicle powered by a gantry type drive system. The idea for a machine that combines features of a bicycle, a car, and a gym, emerged in response to a very practical issue: getting to the university.

A publication offering a new perspective on the dynamics of quantum vortices in a superfluid atomic gas has appeared in the prestigious journal Nature Communications. Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the Warsaw University of Technology were involved in the work.

Researchers from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology will take part in the international research project ANIMATE – Additive maNufacturing Innovative MATerials for Energy applications, carried out within the CONNECT-NM framework – a new European Union funding mechanism for research projects.

Cancer remains one of the greatest challenges in medicine today. Each year, it causes approximately 10 million deaths worldwide. Although therapeutic options continue to expand, chemotherapy remains the foundation of treatment in many cases. One of the most commonly used drugs is cisplatin – known for over forty years. It is a potent anticancer agent, but its use is associated with numerous adverse effects and the growing problem of cancer cell resistance.

Organ transplantation saves the lives of many patients in Poland and around the world. Unfortunately, the number of people waiting for transplants far exceeds the number of available donors, and this gap continues to widen. Researchers associated with the Warsaw University of Technology decided to address this challenge by developing a system for the storage, transport, and monitoring of kidneys intended for transplantation.

Researchers from the QCI Lab team, operating at the Faculty of Mechatronics, WUT, have completed the INHOLO (in-line holography) project, which aimed to develop off-axis holographic microscopy techniques. The work involved a comparative study of two different off-axis holographic QPI (quantitative phase imaging) microscopy techniques – DIHM and TIE. 

The team led by Prof. Artur Kasprzak from the Faculty of Chemistry conducts research in the field of mechanochemistry, which is one of the fastest‑growing techniques in organic synthesis. For their work, the researchers needed a ball mill. They built one themselves: it is cheaper than commercially available solutions and offers new capabilities.

Researchers from the Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology are involved in the T2K experiment in Japan. A joint analysis of neutrino‑oscillation data from the T2K experiment and the NOvA experiment in the United States has been published in the prestigious journal Nature. The publication was co‑authored by Dr Robert Kurjata, Dr Andrzej Rychter, Dr Marcin Ziembicki and Krzysztof Dygnarowicz, Msc.

Retinal detachment is one of the most serious ophthalmic emergencies and, without prompt intervention, leads to loss of vision. For more than half a century, the standard treatment has been scleral buckling – a surgical procedure in which a silicone band is placed around the eye to indent the wall at the site of the retinal tear. Although effective, the method is associated with numerous complications, ranging from myopia to infections and the need for additional surgeries to remove the implant.

A team led by Dr Katarzyna Rędzińska of Warsaw University of Technology is among the winners of the BiodivTransform competition, receiving funding to carry out an international research project.

The research paper “1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL: Scaling Depth Can Enable New Goal-Reaching Capabilities” was awarded Best Paper at the world’s most prestigious artificial intelligence conference, NeurIPS 2025. The co-authors of the work are Prof. Tomasz Trzciński from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology and Michał Bortkiewicz from the Doctoral School of WUT. The publication was created in collaboration with Princeton University.

A team of scientists from the Warsaw University of Technology has developed an innovative method of automatic classification of urban development density with the use of microwave SAR satellite images (Synthetic Aperture Radar). Joanna Pluto-Kossakowska, PhD, from the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, in collaboration with Sandhim Wangiyana from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, has developed a methodology that can support the monitoring and planning of urban fabric.  

A team of students from Varsovian universities was the runner-up in  the prestigious iGEM Competition – the world’s biggest synthetic biology competition organised  by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). One of the members of the team is Bartłomiej Łuszczuk, a student of biotechnology at the Faculty of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology.

In the era of growing environmental challenges and the need for energetic transformation, scientists at the Warsaw University of Technology are taking part in one of the most innovative research projects in Europe – TITAN (Direct biogas conversion to green H₂ and carbon-based materials for soil enhancement and SiC production using a scalable microwave catalytic reactor). The initiative aims to develop a technology that facilitates direct biogas conversion to green H₂ and precious carbon-based materials in a new generation catalytic reactor.

Patrycja Wińska, PhD, from the Team for Biomedical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry, will implement the project “Human exosomes as natural carriers for inhibitors and degraders of CK2 protein kinase in targeted anti-cancer therapy”. She was granted funding for the project as part of the OPUS 28+LAP/Weave Competition of the National Science Centre. 

This year, WUT scientists have continued the non-invasive research programme conducted by the Warsaw University of Technology at the site of the former Treblinka II extermination camp. This year’s work aimed to carry out a detailed survey of the internal roads of the camp, with particular emphasis on the route leading to the gas chambers. 

We now know the winners of this year’s global James Dyson Award. In the “Sustainability” category, the undisputed winner was WaterSense – a groundbreaking project aimed at developing and bringing to market an innovative system for monitoring water quality in Poland. The winners were personally selected by Sir James Dyson, and each of the two global winners will receive £30,000 for their invention. 

At the beginning of 2025, the Student Research Group for Aerial Measurement and Control Systems was established at the Warsaw University of Technology. It operates at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, under the academic supervision of Elżbieta Jarzębowska, PhD. Despite its short period of activity, the Group has already proven its ability to carry out ambitious research and engineering projects. Their work doesn't end in laboratories – it is tested in real, often extreme conditions.

Defining quality indicators for point clouds, simulating the operation of terrestrial laser scanners (TLS), and developing shared digital metrological tools – these are the main goals of the ScanClouDT project. The initiative brings together 15 institutions from across Europe, including our University.

Researchers from the Warsaw University of Technology are participating in OSTEOFUSE – a bilateral project aimed at producing personalised, commercially available spinal and cranio-maxillofacial (CMF) bone implants that combine surface-modification technology with 3D printing. The project has received funding under the VI Polish–Turkish Projects call and brings together four members: the Warsaw University of Technology and the company Stenocoat sp. z o.o. as the national consortium, and the company Trabtech and the University of Ankara as the Turkish consortium.