The Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics was established in July 2020 in the structure of the newly created Chair of Pathomorphology.
The department conducts teaching for 3rd year students of the Faculty of Medicine and the English Division (subject oncogenetics). The Department also conducts selected lectures, seminars and exercises at the Faculty of Pharmacy as part of the Pathomorphology course (major: Medical Analytics, 2nd year). In the scientific field, the Department's team conducts advanced genetic research with the use of the latest technologies in solid neoplasms and hematopoietic neoplasms, cooperating with numerous hematology and oncology centers in Poland and around the world.
Team composition:
Head:
Prof. Dr. med. Tomasz Stokłosa
Adiunkci:
Marcin Machnicki, Ph.D.
Anna Pastwińska, Ph.D.
Assistant:
Monika Kolanowska, Ph.D.
Biosketch of the Head of the Department
Professor Tomasz Stokłosa graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical Academy in Warsaw in 1995 and after completing a post-graduate internship at the State Clinical Hospital of the name Infant Jesus began working in the Department of Immunology at his Alma Mater.
In 2000, he obtained a doctoral degree in medical sciences at the Institute of Biostructure of this university on the basis of the dissertation entitled "Study of the anti-tumor activity of an inhibitor of chymotrypsin-like activity of the proteasome on mouse tumor cells" defended with honors (supervisor: prof. Marek Jakóbisiak).
In 2000-2004, he was on a 3.5-year postdoctoral fellowship financed by the "Oncology Research Faculty Development Program" scholarship from the American National Cancer Institute at the Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, in a laboratory led by dr hab. Tomasz Skórski, who deals with research on the molecular pathogenesis of chronic myeloid leukemia.
After returning to Poland, he developed cooperation with numerous centers of clinical and experimental hematology in Poland and around the world and began to create his research team.
From 2004 to 2020, he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Immunology at the Medical University of Warsaw (MUW).
In the years 2004-2016 he was the Tutor of the Student Scientific Society at the Department of Immunology. During this period, students belonging to the Society, who were both in its and in research teams of other members of the Department, became co-authors of 24 original papers published in international journals such as Clinical Cancer Research, Oncology Reports, Oncogene, PLOS Medicine, Oncotarget, British Journal of Haematology, Leukemia, BMC Cancer, Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases. During this period, the Student Scientific Society was distinguished several times in the ranking of the Student Scientific Society's Scientific Society, incl. taking 2nd place (2012/2013), 1st place (2013/2014) and 4th place (2015/2016), respectively. During this time, students obtained over 20 student mini-migrants, five of which were directly under my care (2009-2016). For the care of the SKN, Dr. Stokłosa was honored by the Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw in 2017 with an individual teaching award of the 2nd degree.
Tomasz Stokłosa is also a laboratory diagnostician and specialist in the field of laboratory medical genetics.
Foreign internships
• Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 3.5-year postdoctoral fellowship during the period in the research team of prof. Tomasz Skórski in the USA as part of the Oncology Research Faculty Development Program (financed by the National Cancer Institute for 3 years).
• The Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA (3-month fellowship of the International Cancer Union, UICC, Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grant for visiting scientist
• University of Ulm in Germany, Department of Internal Medicine III, (short-term internships and working visits in Prof. Lars Bullinger's team)
Membership in scientific societies:
• American Society of Hematology (since 2006)
• European Hematology Association (since 2008)
• Polish Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine (since 2008)
• Polish Society of Human Genetics (from 2019)
Other functions
• Chairman of the Library Council of the Medical University of Warsaw (1st term 2012-2016, 2nd term 2016-2020)
• Member of the expert team (Life Sciences panels) of the National Science Center in 2011-2020 (OPUS, PRELUDIUM, SONATA, SONATA-BIS, ETIUDA, FUGA, MINIATURE, SONATINA competitions),
• Member of the international team of experts for the evaluation of grants awarded by the Lithuanian Scientific Council, RCL (Research Council of Lithuania) in 2016-2020
• Reviewer of research projects submitted in the Operational Program - Innovative Economy and under the Science and Advanced Technologies Fund (Ministry of Science and Higher Education)
• Reviewer of research projects for the Foundation for Polish Science
• Reviewer of research projects submitted to the Polpharma Foundation
• Member of the Scientific Council of the Oncology Center - Institute of Maria Skłodowskiej-Curie - term of office in 2012-2016
• Thematic editor (molecular biology, leukemogenesis) in the journal Acta Haematologica Polonica - since 2012
Biographical notes of the Department's employees
Dr Marcin Machnicki.
Graduate (2011) of the Interdepartmental Study of Biotechnology at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.
In the years 2010-2020, MA and PhD student at the Department of Immunology of the Medical University of Warsaw and at the Molecular Medicine Study. Involved as a contractor and manager in the implementation of research projects on the biology and genetics of cancers, in particular chronic myeloid and lymphocytic leukemia, gastric cancer and head and neck cancer.
Participant of short internships at the Universities of Ulm (Germany) and Temple University in Philadelphia (USA) and co-author of several scientific papers.
Since 2017, he has been involved in large-scale genetic analyzes as part of commercial oncological diagnostics in cooperation with the Medical Genetics Department of the Medical University of Warsaw, and since 2019 as part of diagnostic tests carried out by the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the University Center for Pathomorphology of the UCK MUW (assistant).