Our outstanding chemist Professor Marcin Drąg is to receive the Wrocław Prize this year. An announcement about this was made on Thursday, April 9, by the President of Wrocław Jacek Sutryk. The prize will be presented during the city celebration on June 24.

The researcher from Wrocław University of Science and Technology's Faculty of Chemistry was recognised for creating a unique imaging laboratory, where he and his team worked out the key enzyme of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus thus opening the way to the development of a drug for COVID-19.

- We have many talented, wonderful people in Wrocław. Together with the Rector of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Professor Cezary Madryas, we put forward the candidacy of Professor Marcin Drąg, a Vratislavian, chemist, WUST employee, and winner of the competition “30 Creative Citizens of Wrocław” - said President Sutryk in his speech. - Professor Drąg, please accept our recognition and thanks for your and your team’s work. We are happy that we have such talented young people and those Polish scientists, scientists from Wrocław, have contributed in this way to the development of medicine. I thank you very much and congratulate you on your achievement.

The prize of the President of Wrocław will be given this year to Professor Krzysztof Simon, Head of the Infectious Diseases Ward of J. Gromkowski Regional Specialist Hospital and the Lower Silesian Regional Consultant in the field of infectious diseases. Both winners will receive their prizes during Wrocław’s City Celebration, which is planned for June 24, as always.