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
A graduate (2011) of the Interfaculty Biotechnology Program at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW).
From 2010 to 2020, he pursued his master’s and doctoral studies at the Department of Immunology of the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) and at the School of Molecular Medicine. As a researcher or project leader, he carried out numerous research projects focused on the biology and genetics of cancers, particularly chronic myeloid and lymphocytic leukemia, gastric cancer, and head and neck tumors. He is a co-author of several dozen scientific publications. He completed short-term research internships at universities in Ulm (Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Germany) and Philadelphia (Temple University, USA).

In addition to scientific research, since 2017 he has been involved in large-scale genetic analyses (NGS) as part of commercial oncological diagnostics, in collaboration with the Department of Medical Genetics at WUM. Since 2019, he has also been performing such analyses within the diagnostics conducted by the Genetics Laboratory of the University Clinical Center of WUM (assistant).

In 2022, he earned a PhD in Medical Sciences and Health Sciences at WUM, and in 2024 he obtained the title of specialist in medical molecular genetics.