Piotr Widlak

Prof. Piotr Widlak received M.Sc. in Molecular Biology (1988), Ph.D. in Biomedicine (1993), and habilitation in Biochemistry (2001), and also holds a titular (state) professorship in Medical Sciences (since 2007). He performed post-doctoral research on environmentally and occupationally induced DNA damage (at Karolinska Institute, Sweden; 1994-1995), then on chromatin structure and apoptotic nucleases (at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; 1996-1997). In 1997 he joined the faculty of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, one of the largest clinical and medical research institutes in Poland. He was the Deputy Director for Research (2006-2015), and the Chairman of the Center for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer (2010-2021). Currently (2022), he moved to the Medical University of Gdańsk, top ranked medical university in Poland, as Director of Clinical Research Support Centre. Prof. Widlak authored and co-authored above 160 full-text peer-reviewed papers, with a joint number of citations exceeding 4,000. Major focus areas of his research have been: molecular mechanisms involved in cellular signaling as well as applications of proteomics and metabolomics in molecular oncology.