Aleksandra Piechota-Polanczyk
Jagiellonian University, Poland
Biography
Aleksandra Piechota-Polanczyk is currently employed as an Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University in the frame of the project entitled: Role of heme oxygenase 1 in the development and progression of abdominal aortic aneurysm. She received her PhD in Medicine with specialty of
Medical Biology in 2011. She was a Leading Researcher in Professor Ihor Huk research group (VASLAB) at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria with whom she is now cooperating. Her research interests focuses on finding of new anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory proteins that could be potential markers and/or targets in treatment of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular diseases, as well as the role of Nrf2 and heme oxygenase 1 in cellular adaptation to oxidative stress and inflammatory reactions.