Joanna P. Pyczek, PhD (she/her/hers)

Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Calgary, Canada

Joanna Pyczek, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Charbonneau Cancer Institute at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research interests lie in primary brain tumors. Joanna completed her PhD at the Georg-August Medical University in Goettingen, Germany, where she focused on Hedgehog signaling in the pituitary adenocarcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. In 2018, Joanna shifted her interests towards neuroscience and joined the University of Exeter in the UK as a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the role of the blood-brain barrier in brain metastasis. Ever since joining University of Calgary in 2020, Joanna has been interested in studying drivers of oligodendrocyte progenitor cell dysfunction in the development and progression of oligodendroglioma. She also developed a rapid and versatile system to model adult and pediatric gliomas, which can serve as a valuable tool for preclinical drug testing.