Marta Halasa earned her PhD in medical and health science from the Medical University of Lublin, Poland, in 2022. Her research during her doctoral studies focused on epigenetic modifiers, particularly histone deacetylases, and their impact on cancer progression and metastasis. During her PhD, she completed a long-term internship at the University of Turku, Finland, where she gained expertise in 3D cell techniques. She also undertook an internal internship at the Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland, where she investigated cell-gene therapy in Alzheimer's disease. After completing her PhD, she obtained a postdoctoral fellow position at the Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA. Currently, her research focuses on investigating the role of macrophages in chronic transplant rejection.
Anna Wawruszak got her PhD at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Medical University in Lublin, Poland, in 2020. Since then, she has been working at the Medical University of Lublin as a postdoc, researcher and, finally, an Associate Professor. Her primary expertise lies in translational medicine, epigenetics and breast cancer research. Her work is mainly focused on the anti-cancer activity of histone deacetylase inhibitors in breast cancer models. She has also an interest in green chemistry and biotechnology approaches for the development of nature-based cosmetics.