DEPARTMENT NAME
Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine

CONTACT DETAILS FOR HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Wojciech Fendler, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professorwojciech.fendler@umed.lodz.plbtm@umed.lodz.pl+48 42 272 53 85
Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicineul. Mazowiecka 1592-215 Lodz, Poland

TEAM MEMBERS
Wojciech Fendler, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Beata Małachowska, MD
Bartłomiej Tomasik, MD
Konrad Stawiski, MD
Konrad Pagacz, MD
Przemysław Kucharski, MEng
Maria Jagiello, MSc

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Our department (http://biostat.umed.pl) conducts translational research, crossing the gap between clinical medicine and molecular biology by implementing tools from the informatics, statistics and mathematics fields. Our research and teaching focus is on designing and carrying out medical research, biostatistics and use of new bioinformatic solutions for medical sciences. We also coordinate postgraduate studies in biostatistics.

DEPARTMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS: PROJECTS AND PAPERS

The most important research grants:
2017 – First TEAM – Predictive Biomarkers of Radiation Toxicity (PBRTox) (1.99 mln PLN)
2016 – PRELUDIUM Lysophosphatidic acid in pathogenesis of HNF1B-MODY (150K PLN)
2016 – PRELUDIUM MicroRNA profile in oropharyngeal cancer and its utility in radiotoxicity monitoring (150K PLN)

The most important publications:
Fendler W, Malachowska B,(…) Chowdhury D, Evolutionarily conserved serum microRNAs predict radiation-induced fatality in nonhuman primates., Sci. Transl. Med. 9 (2017) eaal2408, (IF=16.796, 5Y IF=17.151)

Biancur DE, JPaulo Ja, Małachowska B, (…) Fendler W, Mancias JC, Kimmelman AC, Compensatory metabolic networks in pancreatic cancers upon perturbation of glutamine metabolism, Nat. Commun. 8 (2017) 15965, (IF=12.124, 5Y IF=13.092)

Acharya SS, Fendler W, (…)Chowdhury D, Serum microRNAs are early indicators of survival after radiation-induced hematopoietic injury. Sci Transl Med. 2015 May 13;7(287):287ra69, (IF=16.796, 5Y IF=17.151)