Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine
Author : Jędrzej Chrzanowski
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death in the world. Standard treatment of patients with locally advanced cancer of the rectum includes chemoradiotherapy (CHRT) before surgery. In recent years, the new standard of treatment for some patients with CRC has become immunotherapy with the use of so-called immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) […]
We are pleased to inform that prof. Wojciech Fendler, M.D., was selected as a new member of the Science Ethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences for 2023-2026. Congratulations! You can find more information about the Science Ethics Committee here.
It is our pleasure to announce that Agata Kozajda and Julia Świerczyńska have been featured in the list of 100 Forbes Women for their work on red wine’s microRNAs and their effect on heart disease. The results of this project were presented on the final of the E(x)plory research competition. Congratulations! Read more here: https://www.forbes.pl/forbeswomen/lista-forbes-women-100-kobiet-2022-roku/kt7sejh
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 […]
We are pleased to inform about the publication of our new article “GlyCulator 3.0: A Fast, Easy-to-Use Analytical Tool for CGM Data Analysis, Aggregation, Center Benchmarking, and Data Sharing” in the Diabetes Care (IF: 19,110). Main authors of the work, performed in cooperation with clinicians from Department of Pediatrics, Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Medical University […]
Zuzanna Nowicka, PhD student at our Department, was a participant of the 10th edition of the Integrated Mathematical Oncology workshop organized by the Moffitt Cancer Center (Tampa, USA). During the week-long workshop, the team which Dr. Nowicka was part of created mathematical models describing the development of glioblastoma multiforme taking into account the ploidy of […]
We are happy to inform you that two high school students, Julia Świerczyńska and Agata Kozajda, interns at the Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine, have been qualified for the scholarship program “Zdolni” held by National Children’s Fund. Together they work on a project “In Vino Veritas – an influence of miRNA present in red […]
We are pleased to announce that the T1Drink international project is starting. This project, conducted in cooperation between Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine with young researchers’ group JENIOUS from International Society for Pediatric and Adolescents Diabetes (ISPAD) and international patient organization Children with Diabetes, aims at determining the optimal insulin therapy in adults with […]
In September 2022 two of our employees Urszula Smyczyńska and Szymon Grabia co-organized NGSchool 2022: Machine Learning in Computational Biology (https://ngschool.eu/ngschool2022/), a summer school dedicated to sharing knowledge of various uses of machine learning in bioinformatics and related fields. The event took place in the picturesque Jabłonna Palace near Warsaw, Poland and lasted for 8 […]
We are happy to announce that our team, as the part of international collaboration with UK FOCSS and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, was awarded the 2022 Bob Bast’s Translational Research Grant for the project entitled “Blood-based screening for identification and monitoring of women at elevated risk for breast and ovarian cancer”. The grant has been […]
