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 2021. In total, we have been awarded 15 times, twice for international projects, 8 times for 1st-degree research achievements and 5 times for 2nd-degree research achievements!

Awards for international research projects:

1. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD and Zuzanna Nowicka, MD for „Functional Radiogenetic Profiling Implicates ERCC6L2 in Non-homologous End Joining” published in Cell Reports (9,423 IF)
2. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, in team for „Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Positively Affects the Natural History of Cancer in Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome” published in Clinical Cancer Research (13,801 IF)

1st-degree research awards:

1. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, Beata Małachowska, MD, PhD, Marcin Stańczak MD, and Dominika Michalek, MSc, in team, for publication series „Clinical, molecular and multiomic analysis of selected monogenic diabetes” (15,726 IF)
2. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, Arkadiusz Michalak, MD, Aleksandra Łosiewicz, MD, and Jędrzej Chrzanowski, in team, for publication series „Factors affecting metabolic control in pediatric type 1 diabetes” (15,360 IF)
3. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, Konrad Stawiski, MD, PhD, in team, for publication series on urologic cancer (12,919 IF)
4. Arkadiusz Michalak, MD, in team, for publication series „In search for genetic and immunologic origins of type 1 diabetes with immune insufficiency” (12,295 IF)
5. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, in team, for publication series „Impact of genetic variants of PIK3CA and TAS2R in head and neck cancer” (11,988 IF)
6. Jędrzej Chrzanowski, in team, for publication series „Risk factors and pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea complications” (11,172 IF)
7. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, Konrad Stawiski, MD, PhD, Damian Mikulski, MD, and Kacper Kościelny, in team, for publication series „Prognostic factors in multiple myeloma treated with bortezomib” (11,539 IF)
8. Ewelina Perdas, PhD, in team, for publication series „cfDNA as a biomarker of stress response in extreme physical activity and pathologic process in humans” (10,336 IF)

2nd-degree research awards:

1. Bartłomiej Tomasik, MD, PhD, in team, for publication series „Factors affecting the efficacy of embolization and recanalization of intracranial aneurysms – clinical trial using fluid dynamics” (9,187 IF)
2. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, Urszula Smyczyńska, PhD, Szymon Grabia, MSc, Zuzanna Nowicka, MD, in team, for publication „Prediction of Radiation-Induced Hypothyroidism Using Radiomic Data Analysis Does Not Show Superiority over Standard Normal Tissue Complication Models.” (6,639 IF)
3. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, Jędrzej Chrzanowski, in team, for publication „Evaluation of Changes to the Oral Microbiome Based on 16S rRNA Sequencing among Children Treated for Cancer” (6,575 IF)
4. Konrad Stawiski, MD, PhD, in team, for publication „TGF-β gene polimorphisms as risk factors for asthma control among clinic patients.” (6,283 IF)
5. Aleksandra Ryk, MSc, Dominika Michałek, MSc, in team, for publication series on efficacy and toxicity of methotrexate treatment of pediatric idiopathic arthritis (6,111 IF)

Read more: https://umed.pl/pliki/2022/11/a.-Lista-laureatow-nagrod-JM-Rektora-za-2021-r.-sig.pdf