Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine
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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, […]
We are excited to announce our latest research, “Retrospective Comparative Analysis of Two Medical Evacuation Systems for Ukrainian Patients Affected by War,” led by Alexandra Mueller, MD, PhD, Aleksandra Oszer, MD, with support of our team PhD student Zuzanna Nowicka, MD, and prof. Wojciech Fendler, MD, together with team of international experts was published in […]
We are happy to share that our latest study, led by Agata Pastorczak, MD, PhD in collaboration with our PhD student Zuzanna Nowicka, MD and former member, Marcin Stańczak, MD, has been published in Leukemia. This groundbreaking research explores the genetic hallmarks and clinical implications of chromothripsis in childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). Chromothripsis, […]
We are excited to share the latest interview with our Head of Department, Prof. Wojciech Fendler, featured on PolitykaZdrowotna.com! Discover the new initiatives on the horizon for the Polish Medical Research Agency (ABM) and learn how one can lead one of Poland’s major research funding institutions while remaining an active researcher. “In the perspective of […]
The latest article just published in the collaboration between our doctoral student Zuzanna Nowicka and Prof. Wojciech Fendler’s team with Prof. Dipanjan Chowdhury, demonstrates how loss of 53BP1, a critical regulator of DNA repair, activates the pro-inflammatory signals in cancer cells and anti-tumor immunity. Deficiency of the molecular DNA damage repair forms the basis of […]
