Marta Stojak, Ph.D.

Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology of Endothelium
e-mail: marta.stojak@jcet.eu

Marta Stojak obtained her PhD in Biological Sciences in 2013 at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in the Department of Experimental Hematology. In 2014, she joined the Professor Chlopicki’s team at the Jagiellonian Centre for Experimental Therapeutics (JCET) and since 2017 she has been the Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology of Endothelium. In 2021 she received the Jagiellonian University Rector’s Award for scientific achievements. In her scientific work she focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying cancer cell metastasis, in particular the adhesion of breast cancer cells to the lung endothelium and their subsequent transmigration. In 2018, within the MINIATURA project (founded by National Science Center), she received a scientific internship at University of California in USA, in which she mastered the unique methodology of 3D microfluidic platforms. Between 2021-2022 she was the principal investigator of the POB BIOS Minigrant project “Role of PDIA3 in tumor cell adhesion interactions with the endothelium”. She has an experience in using many research methods such as flow cytometry, imaging cytometry or ECIS (Electric Cell-substrate Impedance Sensing).

Selected recent publications

  • Stojak M, Milczarek M, Kurpinska A, Suraj-Prazmowska J, Kaczara P, Wojnar-Lason K, Banach J, Stachowicz-Suhs M, Rossowska J, Kalviņš I, Wietrzyk J, Chlopicki S. (2020) Protein Disulphide Isomerase A1 Is Involved in the Regulation of Breast Cancer Cell Adhesion and Transmigration via Lung Microvascular Endothelial Cells. Cancers (Basel), 12(10): 2850. doi: 10.3390/cancers12102850.
  • Stojak M, Kaczara P, Motterlini R, Chlopicki S. (2018) Modulation of cellular bioenergetics by CO-releasing molecules and NO-donors inhibits the interaction of cancer cells with human lung microvascular endothelial cells. Pharmacol Res, 136:160-171. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2018.09.005.   

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