At the 19th Warsaw International Medical Congress, Łukasz Mazurek, MD, gave a lecture entitled 'Keratin-Acetate Dressing Accelerates Wound Healing and Promotes M2 Macrophages Polarisation in Diabetic Rats' and won first place in the PhD Basic & Preclinical Science Session. 

During the 10th International Scientific Conference "Interdisciplinary Aspects of Skin and Mucosal Diseases" organised by the Student Dermatological Scientific Club at the Department of Dermatology of the Medical University of Warsaw, Jan Jurak, a student from our club, took 2nd place in the original papers session.  

At the 14th edition of the “Skin Ageing & Challenges” healed in Lisbon our colleague Mateusz Rybka, MD presented the results of his research project entitled pt." Keratin-TMAO Wound Dressing Promotes Polarization Of M2 Macrophages And Accelerates Wound Healing In Diabetic Rats".

At the 8th International Conference on Composite Materials and Material Engineering (ICCMME2023) held in Tokyo, Japan on January 6-8, 2023 our college Łukasz Mazurek won the best lecture award. ICCMME2023 is co-organized by South Asia Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE), Sichuan University, China, Yonsei University, South Korea and Tokyo University of Science, Japan. 

At the 13th International Conference on Skin Ageing and Challenges held in Lisbon, Marek Konop, PhD, was invited as an invited speaker to deliver a lecture "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Two Faces of Opioids in a Wound Treatment".

American Heart Association - Paul Dudley White International Scholar 2022

During the 8th International Scientific Conference "Interdisciplinary Aspects of Skin and Mucosal Diseases" organized by the Student Dermatological Scientific Club at the Department of Dermatology of the Medical University of Warsaw, a student of our Club - Lukasz Mazurek won in the "Original Research Session" and Mateusz Rybka took IInd place in the "Review Session".

We are very pleased to announce that the paper by Konop M. et al. "Evaluation of keratin biomaterial containing silver nanoparticles as a potential wound dressing in full-thickness skin wound model in diabetic mice" has been ranked as a Top Cited Article 2020-2021.

Link to the article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/term.2998.

At the 12th International Conference on Skin Ageing and Challenges held in Lisbon, Marek Konop, PhD, won the Short Oral Presentation session for his lecture entitled "Keratin-Biphalin Scaffold Accelerate Skin Wound Healing in Diabetic Mice." Link: https://skin-challenges.com/congress-news/short-oral-presentations-awards-2021/ 

We are pleased to announce that the paper entitled "Microbiota and Malodor-Etiology and Management" (http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/8/2886) by Mogilnicka et al. has been selected as a Top Downloaded Papers of International Journal of Molecular Sciences in 2020.

International award for Employees of the Department of Experimental Physiology and Pathophysiology at WUM.

We invite you to read the interview that the Head of the Department of Experimental Physiology and Pathophysiology at WUM, Prof. Marcin Ufnal, MD, PhD, gave to The Naked Scientists portal titled. "Trimethylamine oxide cuts heart failure death".

Link to the interview: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/trimethylamine-oxide-cuts-heart-failure-death  

Link to the article titled: "TMAO, a seafood-derived molecule, produces diuresis and reduces mortality in heart failure rats" published in the prestigious journal eLife (IF = 7,080) https://elifesciences.org/articles/57028

Awards Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)

The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has announced a list of scholarship holders of the 28th edition of the START program. Among the 100 most talented young scientists was Kinga Jaworska, a PhD student from the Department of Experimental Physiology and Pathophysiology, who was awarded in the field of preclinical medicine.

Minister of Health Award

 The ministerial award for significant achievements in the field of scientific activity - was received by a team from the Department of Physiology and Experimental Pathophysiology composed of: prof. Marcin Ufnal - head of the Department, Tomasz Hutsch, PhD, Marek Konop, PhD and  Piotr Konopelski, MD. 

American Heart Association

Paul Dudley White International Scholar 2019 

The Physiological Society

The Physiological Society has issued the press release https://www.physoc.org/news_article/80583/ and video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ha-1Pte-0&feature=youtu.be promoting research about a new marker of a functional intestinal lesion (Permeability ratio, Pr ratio). The results of our research were published in the article: "Inflammatory bowel disease associates with increased gut ‐ to ‐ blood penetration of SCFA: A new, noninvasive marker of a functional intestinal lesion". Exp Physiol. 2019, doi: 10.1113 / EP087773.

Article Impact Award 2018

During the "Experimental Biology 2019" Congress held in Orlando, USA, prof. Marcin Ufnal - Head of the Department of Physiology and Experimental Pathophysiology received the "Article Impact Award 2018" from the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiolgy - prof. Irving Zucker as the corresponding author of the work "Chronic, low-dose treatment reduces TMAO diastolic dysfunction and heart fibrosis in hypertensive rats."

The American Physiological Society award

The American Physiological Society awarded the APSselect award our paper titled "Chronic, low-dose TMAO treatment reduces diastolic dysfunction and heart fibrosis in hypertensive rats". The publication concerns the effect of TMAO - a compound found in fish and produced by intestinal bacteria on the circulatory system in a model of hypertension.
https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/ajpheart.00536.2018?rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&journalCode=ajpheart

International Society of Microbiota

Targeting Microbiota Award