Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine
Announcement
On 4 September 2026, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., the Mazovian Voivodeship Office in Warsaw will host the official opening of an exhibition presenting the profiles of outstanding Polish women scientists – fellows of the jubilee 25th edition of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science programme. Among this year’s fellows is Zuzanna Nowicka-Kaszkowiak. The […]
To mark International Women’s Day, the Cambridge Endometrial Network will host a special forum in Cambridge bringing together researchers and clinicians to explore new perspectives on endometriosis and women’s reproductive health. Among the featured speakers is dr Monika Golinska from the Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine at the Medical University of Lodz. Dr Golinska […]
We are delighted to announce that Dr Damian Mikulski has been awarded a prize in the 27th edition of the competition for the best doctoral dissertation using statistical and data analysis methods implemented in the Statistica software suite. The competition is jointly organized by StatSoft Poland and the Polish Statistical Association. This distinction is particularly […]
We are pleased to announce that we have published a paper entitled Comparative Analysis of microRNA Expression in Serum and Plasma in Patients Screened for BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutations in the journal Biomarker Research. Congratulations to the first author, Urszula Smyczyńska PhD MSc, and to our team— Aleksander Rycerz MD BSs, Klaudia Kozłowska PhD MSc, and Prof. Wojciech Fendler—on this achievement! We congratulate and thank our Coauthors from other institutions for fruitful […]
We are pleased to announce that members of our team have received the Rector’s Awards: Prof. Wojciech Fendler and Zuzanna Nowicka-Kaszkowiak MD received a Scientific Award for outstanding achievements in international scientific collaboration for the publication 53BP1 loss elicits cGAS–STING-dependent antitumor immunity in ovarian and pancreatic cancer in Nature Communications. Prof. Wojciech Fendler, Urszula Smyczyńska […]
We are delighted to announce that three grants from the National Science Centre (NCN) have been awarded for projects conducted in our Department. This recognition opens new opportunities and allows us to continue contributing to the advancement of science and medicine. In the OPUS competition, funding was awarded to the project of Prof. Wojciech Fendler, […]
We are proud to announce that Dr. Zuzanna Maria Nowicka-Kaszkowiak, a researcher at the Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine at the Medical University of Lodz, has been awarded the prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO “For Women in Science” fellowship in the doctoral category. Dr. Nowicka-Kaszkowiak conducts research on immunological alterations occurring within the tumor microenvironment under the […]
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Konrad Stawiski, MD, PhD, a board-certified radiation oncologist at the Regional Oncology Center (Copernicus Memorial Hospital) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine at the Medical University of Łódź, has been awarded the prestigious Prof. Franciszek Walczak Scholarship by the Polish National Agency for […]
On June 14, 2025, our PhD student, Jędrzej Chrzanowski, MD, received a START scholarship! The Foundation for Polish Science’s START program is the largest scholarship initiative in Poland dedicated to outstanding young researchers from all fields of science. Its aim is to support the most promising early-career scientists and encourage their continued scientific development. In […]
We’re delighted to announce that Zuzanna Nowicka, MD, PhD candidate in our Department, together with her international collaborators, has been honoured with a cover feature in Cancer Research, one of the world’s foremost oncology journals. Their groundbreaking study presents a mathematical model exploring how ploidy and resource availability drive the clonal evolution of glioblastoma, offering […]
