It has been several years since the International Laboratory of High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures started investigating nanowires of bismuth (in the form of single crystalline nanowires) at temperatures 1.5-300 K and in high magnetic fields (up to 14 T). These nanowires have diameter between 30 nm and 200 nm and have been obtained via crystallization of bismuth liquid in thin glass capillaries.

Second Polish-Norwegian Neuroinformatics Workshop entitled “How to model neurons and neural systems? Integrating biophysics, morphology, and connectivity” was held at the Nencki Institute on January 14-15, 2010. The workshop was sponsored by the Polish-Norwegian Research Fund and the Nencki Institute.

On the 13th January 2010 a seminar titled „Patent for a scientist” took place at the Nencki Institute. During this event a question of importance of intellectual property in research was thoroughly discussed. Concurrently it was inauguration of the Nencki Institute Innovation Platform (innovation.nencki.gov.pl).

KORANET (Korean scientific cooperation network with the European Research Area) 
aims at intensifying and strengthening S&T cooperation between Korea and Europe. The project is funded under the 7th EU Research Framework Program and runs from January 2009 until December 2012. Polish Academy of Sciences is among eleven partners from nine European countries and Korea which form the KORANET consortium.

Effective January 1, 2010 Prof. Adam Szewczyk was nominated for the position of the Director of the Nencki Institute. The nomination was signed by the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Prof. Michal Kleiber as a result of an open recruitment procedure, in which Prof. Szewczyk was the only applicant for the position.

The 2010 Bruno Rossi Prize was awarded to Felix Aharonian, Werner Hoffmann, Heinz Voelk and the H.E.S.S. collaboration for their outstanding contributions to imaging TeV Astronomy, which addressed fundamental questions related to particle acceleration and the origin of the Cosmic Rays through the study of SNRs, PWN and nearby AGNs.
Among the prize winners is also a group of Polish scientists from Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Jarosław Dyks, Tomasz Bulik, Rafał Moderski, Bronisław Rudak, Marek Sikora,  Wlodek Kluzniak,  Andrzej Zdziarski ), Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University (Michał Ostrowski, Łukasz Stawarz),  Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow (Jacek Niemiec, Michal Dyrda) and Torun Centre for Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University (Krzystof Katarzynski) who are the members of the H.E.S.S. collaboration.