Year: 2020

NCN Awards 2020

We are pleased to announce that Wojciech Fendler MD PhD has won the eighth edition of the National Science Center Award for Life Sciences! It is an annual distinction awarded to outstanding young scientists who have made significant scientific discoveries. Wojciech Fendler MD PhD has been recognized for his research into microRNAs as biomarkers of […]

Medical University of Lodz Rector’s awards for research achievements in 2019

We are pleased to inform you that our team at the Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine has been awarded by the Rector of the Medical University of Lodz for research achievements in 2019. In total, we have been awarded 4 times, 3 times for 1st-degree research achievements and once for 2nd-degree research achievements! 1st-degree research awards: […]

Our new paper on radiation-induced hypothyroidism

We are pleased to inform about the publication of our new article “Radiation-Induced Hypothyroidism in Patients with Oropharyngeal Cancer Treated with IMRT: Independent and External Validation of Five Normal Tissue Complication Probability Models” in the new special issue of Cancers. Main authors of the work, performed in cooperation with scientists from Oncology Center of Radom, […]

Our team will support DisCoVeRy clinical trial within the POLCRIN research network

The overall objective of this 5-year project is to build a multinational, adaptive European COVID-19 and emerging infectious diseases trial network, based on existing initiatives, experience and expertise, allowing European expansion of DisCoVeRy (WP1) and the establishment of a COVID19 adaptive platform trial (WP2). The DisCoVeRy trial, designed as a multi-arm adaptive repurposing trial, initiated […]

StatSoft Polska award for the best doctoral dissertation using Statistica software

On Tuesday, September 15, 2020, the winners of the competition for the best doctoral dissertation using Statistica software were announced. The contest was organized by StatSoft Polska under the patronage of the Polish Statistical Society. We are glad that the award went to Bartłomiej Tomasik, who defended his doctoral dissertation “Identification and utilization of circulating […]

Polish Society of Clinical Oncology award for the best doctoral thesis defense in 2019

On Thursday, August 27, 2020, during the opening ceremony of the XXIII Congress of the Polish Society of Clinical Oncology (PTOK), diplomas were awarded to the winners of the competition for the best doctoral thesis defended in 2019. We are pleased to announce that Bartłomiej Tomasik was among the three distinguished persons. He defended his […]

21st Meeting of Diabetes Poland

During the 21st Meeting of Diabetes Poland, members of our team (Jędrzej Chrzanowski, Arkadiusz Michalak) had the chance to present 3 talks during two sessions. Comparison of 1st and 2nd Freestyle Libre generation systems vs glucometer in children with type 1 diabetes during summer camp Improved estimation of glycated hemoglobin concentration using Continuous Glucose Monitoring […]

New gene associated with radiation sensitivity discovered!

We are happy to present the results of our fruitful collaboration with researchers from University of Bern, Switzerland and from the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Zuzanna Nowicka and Wojciech Fendler MD PhD co-authored the article Functional Radiogenetic Profiling Implicates ERCC6L2 in Non-homologous End Joining in the August issue of Cell Reports. In this study, genome-wide radiogenetic […]

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