| dr Aleksandra Biedrzycka | Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences | Evolutionary biology | Discovering the role of pathogen mediated selection and mate choice in MHC evolution in natural population. An example of extensively studied sedge warbler population | 445 000 |
| dr Małgorzata Cieśla | Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences | Molecular biology | New proteins implicated in regulation of tRNA transcription in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 473 940 |
| dr Paulina Dominiak | University of Warsaw | Physical chemistry | Extending the power of X-ray analysis of macromolecular crystal data | 649 500 zł |
| dr eng. Iwona Gabriel | Gdańsk University of Technology | Biochemistry | An unique fungal lysine biosynthesis enzymes new targets for antifungal agents | 441 100 zł |
| dr Dagmara Jakimowicz | University of Wrocław | Microbiology | Influence of topoisomerase I on the chromosome dynamics in Streptomyces and Mycobacterium - from single molecule to cell biology studies | 717 000 zł |
| dr eng. Renata Kopeć | Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics | Nuclear physics | Optimization of patient and personnel dosimetry in radiology | 555 500 zł |
| dr Andrea Lipińska | Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG-MUG, University of Gdańsk | Virusology | Exploring new immune evasion mechanisms of herpesviruses the search for improvement strategies of anti-herpesviral vaccines and virus-based therapeutics | 554 000 zł |
| dr Agnieszka Łoboda | Jagiellonian University | Molecular biology | Significance of apolipoprotein E polymorphism in regenerative medicine | 560 000 zł |
| dr eng. Edyta Łokas | Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics | Environmental science | Radioactive environment of the European Arctic on the verge of change | 433 500 zł |
| dr Agnieszka Michota-Kamińska | Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Science | Physical chemistry | Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering SERS platform for molecular diagnostics | 438 000 zł |
| dr Magdalena Niedziałkowska | Mammal Research Department, Polish Academy of Sciences | Environmental biology | Mechanisms of the long-term maintanace of a narrow contact zone of two phylogeographic linages of the bank vole Myodes glareolus in NE Poland | 478 800 zł |
| dr Oksana Yastrubchak | Maria Curie-Skłodowska University | Physics | Fabrication and investigation of nanosize structures for spintronics on the base of diluted magnetic semiconductors Ga,Mn As and Mn ion implanted GaAs | 484 700 zł |