Mrs. Wiktoria Szwalec, conducting research on subepithelial fibrosis in asthma for her master's thesis under the supervision of Dr. Dawid Wnuk, and Mr. Marcin Ostoja-Hełczyński, conducting his research under the supervision of Prof. Ewa Zuba-Surma, have been selected as laureates of the BioLAB program. The BioLAB program is a year-long internship for students of biological-chemical, biophysical, medical, and related sciences in four American scientific institutions. Mrs. Wiktoria will undertake her internship in the research group of Dr. Ira G. Schulman at the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Virginia, focusing on studying fibrotic processes in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease linked to metabolic disorders (NAFLD). Mr. Marcin will conduct his research under the guidance of Dr. Jake Kirkland at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, investigating the impact of chromatin regulators on the development of heart cells and the maintenance of the heart stem cell population in mice. Congratulations!!!
The team led by Prof. Ewa Zuba-Surma has published an article in the "Journal of Nanobiotechnology" (IF2023=10.2). The work was a result of Polish-French collaboration between teams from WBBiB UJ and INSERM.
The first authors of the publication entitled "Mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles exert pro-angiogenic and pro-lymphangiogenic effects in ischemic tissues by transferring various microRNAs and proteins including ITGa5 and NRP1" are Dr. Anna Łabędź-Masłowska and Dr. Luisa Vergori. The research involved Anna Łabędź-Masłowska, Elżbieta Karnas, Sylwia Bobis-Wozowicz and Ewa Zuba-Surma from the Department of Cell Biology, as well as Syliwa Kędracka-Krok from the Department of Physical Biochemistry and Michał Sarna from the Department of Biophysics at WBBiB. The article can be accessed on the publisher's website. The publication of the article in open access mode was made possible thanks to funding from WBBiB UJ as part of the Strategic Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University.
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