Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw, Poland
Bozena Kaminska graduated from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Warsaw in 1985, and obtained her PhD in biochemistry at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1991. After postdoctoral training at the Mc Gill University in Montreal (Canada), she has obtained habilitation at the Nencki Institute in 1997, and in 2003 become a full professor. Currently she is working at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS in Warsaw, where she heads the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology. Since 2009 she is the director of the Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine of the Medical University of Warsaw Her international training encompasses a postdoctoral internship at the McGill University in Montreal, a visiting researcher at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA in Los Angeles and the visiting Nanshan Scholar professorship at the Medical University of Guangzhou.
She specializes in molecular neurobiology, neuro-oncology and tumor immunology. Through mechanistic understanding of the crosstalk between the immune system and tumor she aims to contribute to the design of novel immunomodulatory strategies to fight uncurable brain tumors. She has pioneered single-cell omics studies of brain tumor microenvironment. In her career, she was a principal investigator in 44 domestic and international research grants, including grants from the National Science Center (Maestro, Harmonia, Symphony, OPUS), National Center for Research and Development (Strategmed 1, 2, 3), Foundation for Polish Science (Master, Team-Tech Core Facility), a NATO grant, EU subsidies in two Framework Programs and ERANET grants. She promoted 27 doctors, 3 habilitated doctors and 10 Master students. She is an elected member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2016) and European Molecular Biology Organization (2022).