We are pleased to announce that Ewelina Perdas, PhD, from our Department, has become one of the 114 laureates of the Bekker NAWA Program – Mieczysław Bekker Program! For one year, starting from May 2024, Dr. Perdas will collaborate with Prof. Theresa L. Whiteside at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, USA). The project Dr. Perdas will focus on, entitled “Small extracellular vesicles as biomarkers of prognosis and response to therapy in head and neck cancer”, will investigate the potential of extracellular vesicles as novel biomarkers for prognosis and response to treatment in head and neck cancer. Congratulations!

You can read more about the Programme here.