Jakub Fichna

The Medical University of Lodz (MUL) is one of the largest public medical universities in Poland, with over 9500 Polish students in 16 medicine and public health-related disciplines. MUL employs 1,600 academic and research staff : 180 full professors, 180 assistant and associate professors and nearly 850 PhD academics. MUL is considered a leader in the number of scientific publications and citations among medical schools in Poland. It has reached the leading position in various research areas, and particularly in patient adherence and healthy ageing. The University is the only medical school in Poland belonging to the European Knowledge and Innovation Community EIT Health with the status of Lead Partner and was awarded a three-star status as a Reference Site of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA). MUL was in the first 20 beneficiaries of “Excellence Initiative – Research University” and was awarded with prestigious European “Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R)” logo. Department of Biochemistry, located in the state-of-the art facility MOLECOLAB, houses a young and energetic team of scientists, doctoral students and undergraduate students, who carry out scientific and didactic tasks. Our goal is to conduct research at the highest scientific level, as well as to provide our students with extensive theoretical and practical knowledge. Our expertise is in nutrition as well as physiology and pathophysiology of the digestive system. We aim to discover and characterize new pharmacological targets for the treatment of functional and inflammatory diseases of the digestive system and conduct translational research to clinical settings. We also design new nutritional and pharmacological interventions and supplements and characterize their biological effects in the digestive system.  We have open collaborations with several research and clinical teams from Poland and across the world, with access to state-of-the-art tools and pre-clinical and clinical data.