DEPARTMENT NAME
Department of Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy

CONTACT DETAILS FOR HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
prof. dr hab. n. med. Marek Leszek Kowalski
marek.kowalski@umed.lodz.pl
+48 42 675 73 09

Department of Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy
ul. Pomorska 251
92-213 Lodz, Poland

TEAM MEMBERS
prof. dr hab. n. med. Marek Leszek Kowalski – Chairman, Department of Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy
Chair of Immunology and Clinical Microbiology Director, Healthy Ageing Research Center (HARC)

Academic Staff:
Dr hab. n. med. Maciej Chałubiński – Associate Professor
Dr n. med. Marcin Kurowski – Associate Professor
Dr n. med. Małgorzata Pawełczyk – Associate Professor
Dr n. med. Aleksandra Wardzyńska – Associate Professor
Dr n. med. Barbara Majkowska-Wojciechowska – Associate Professor
Dr n. med. Monika Jędrzejczak-Czechowicz – Associate Professor

Technical Staff:
Dr n. biol. Marta Popławska – Head of Biobank
Dr n. biol. Edyta Pietrowska
mgr Bogusław Tymoniuk – Head of transplant immunology laboratory
mgr Marzanna Jarzębska

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Our department is pursuing therapeutic, teaching and scientific activities in the fields of allergy and clinical immunology. The research interests of the team focus on the epidemiology and development of allergic disease. Recent projects encompass the issues of influence of viral infections on airway remodeling in asthma, effect of exercise on innate immunity and airway inflammation, as well as various aspects of epidemiological and immune-mediated mechanisms of food and drug hypersensitivity and allergy

DEPARTMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS: PROJECTS AND PAPERS
CURE: Constructing a ‘Eubiosis Reinstatement Therapy’ for Asthma.
HARC: Healthy Ageing Research Centre
FAST: Towards safe and effective immunotherapy of persistent life-threatening food allergies
PreDICTA: Post-infectious Immune Reprogramming and its Association with Persistence and Chronicity of Respiratory Allergic Diseases
iFAAM: Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Risk Management
“Cytomegalovirus DNA is highly prevalent in the blood of patients with asthma and is associated with age and asthma traits”
“A functional IFN-λ4-generating DNA polymorphism could protect older asthmatic women from aeroallergen sensitization and associate with clinical features of asthma”
“Risk and safety requirements for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in allergology: World Allergy Organization  Statement”