Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine
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We are pleased to announce that the laureate of this year’s edition of the Rector’s Special Award for Young Academic Teachers for outstanding research achievements in the form of an original publication published in 2024 was our PhD student, Aleksandra Ryk, M.Sc.! Congratulations! Aleksandra Ryk, M.Sc., is a graduate from the University of Bristol the […]
Our PhD student, Dr. Zuzanna Nowicka, is a co-first author of the article “Interactions Between Ploidy and Resource Availability Shape Clonal Evolution in Glioblastoma,” published in the AACR journal Cancer Research. Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive brain tumor. Its infiltrative nature makes complete surgical removal impossible, while its invasiveness and response to treatment are […]
It is our pleasure to share the exciting news that mgr Katarzyna Płoszka, our PhD student, has been selected to participate in the TopMinds 2025 program. She will receive mentorship from dr Anna Jarząb. The recruitment for this edition was especially competitive – out of 241 applications, only 20 participants were chosen for this prestigious […]
We are pleased to announce that the Rector of the Medical University of Łódź has recognized our Department’s research activities and has been granted an acknowledgment of outstanding research efforts, including international collaborations and studies of the highest standard. Awards for International Collaboration: Urszula Smyczyńska, PhD, MSc, Konrad Stawiski, PhD, MD, Prof. Wojciech Fendler, MD, […]
We are excited to announce that our PhD student, Jędrzej Chrzanowski, MD, has secured funding in the 2nd edition of the BRaIn internal grants program. His research project, EPIDIABMap – Comprehensive Dynamic Epigenetic Map of Type 1 Diabetes Management, will investigate chromatin accessibility in PBMCs during the first years after diabetes diagnosis using the ATAC-seq […]
We are pleased to invite all researchers, PhD candidates, and students to an open lecture by Professor Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhD, titled “DNA repair and cell cycle: implications in cancer biology.” Professor Chowdhury is our long-standing collaborator from Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. More details about the lecture are available here.
We are pleased to announce that MSc Katarzyna Płoszka has begun her doctoral studies at the newly established Doctoral School of Molecular Medicine at the Medical University of Łódź, which is an initiative of several leading scientific institutions in Poland, focused on molecular research in medicine. Under the supervision of Prof. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, […]
We are pleased to announce that Barbara Pernak, a third-year student of medicine, has just started the Individual Course of Study. The program of the two-year study that she will carry out during ITS was rated the highest among all this year’s projects. As part of her scientific work, she will conduct a study entitled […]
Worldwide collaboration is the foundation of modern scientific research. This is especially true in the field of pediatric diabetes, which is steadily increasing in prevalence across many countries in Europe and around the world. From September 22 to 27, the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) organized the ISPAD Science School for Physicians […]
We are thrilled to announce that the protocol for the COMBO-UC clinical trial, led by Dr. Renata Wojnarowska, MD, PhD, Professor at the Medical University of Łódź, in collaboration with Katarzyna Płoszka, MSc, Katarzyna Błaziak, MSc, and Prof. Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, has been published in Frontiers in Medicine! The article titled “Comparison of ustekinumab, […]
