On 10 February, a meeting was held in the Rector’s office to honour the winner of the main prize in the 27th edition of the StatSoft Polska competition for the best doctoral thesis prepared using Statistica software.

The meeting was attended by: the Rector of the Medical University of Lodz, Prof. Janusz Piekarski, representatives of StatSoft Polska, the supervisor of the winning thesis, Prof. Wojciech Fendler, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Jacek Rożniecki, and the award winner, Dr Damian Mikulski.

Dr Mikulski works as an assistant at the Department of Biostatistics and Translational Medicine at the Medical University of Lodz, and the award-winning thesis is entitled “The role of circulating miRNAs in predicting treatment outcomes, complications and toxicity in autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation”.