Computational oncology and personalized medicine Priority Research Area POB1

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Joanna Polańska is a Professor of Biocybernetics at the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, member of Committee of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor Polańska is an expert in data science, focusing mainly on the development and application of novel data analysis algorithms in medicine and biology. Her group is widely recognised for their comprehensive research within the area of proteomics and mass spectrometry imaging, conducted in cooperation with Oncology Centre, Gliwice and Technical University of Munich, that resulted in the construction of the complete signal analysis pipeline leading to the near-lossless data compression. The extensive studies on the cancer omics and radiation response signature initiated the development of the unsupervised method for training set selection in the case of heterogeneous, high dimensional data that was recently successfully used in the pharmacodynamics single-cell transcriptomics (Yale University, Cancer Centre) and mass cytometry studies (Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin and Stellenbosch University, RPA).

Sylwia Bajkacz (Magiera) is supervisor of the chromatography laboratory at the Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis and Analysis at the Biotechnology Center of the Silesian University of Technology. Dr Bajkacz is an expert in bioanalytical chemistry, the use of separation and spectral techniques in biomedicine and in environmental biotechnology. The area of Dr Bajkacz’s research is focused on the development of novel, innovative analytical procedures in the fields of biomedicine, life sciences and biotechnology. Her publications and accomplished research projects concern the applications of new, miniaturized and green method solutions in separation science and sample preparation technologies.