Professor Katarzyna Taran, MD, PhD. Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Poland
Interdisciplinary researcher of tumor cell biology with the use of the most modern scientific tools and prospective clinical impact (awarded 2011 and 2018).
Pioneer of the research on isotopic composition of cancer tissue ‘in vivo’ (2015) and discoverer of the nitrogen enrichment phenomenon in cancer tissue, and the breakthrough in isotopic composition at the key moment of cancer dissemination ‘Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) as a new tool in evaluating pathomechanisms of neoplastic disease with regard to isotope map of children’s organisms in Lodz region’(Taran, 2015, awarded 2018), ‘The first investigation of Wilms’ tumour atomic structure– nitrogen and carbon isotopic composition as a novel biomarker for the most individual approach in cancer disease (Taran et al., 2016)’.
Expert Minerva-Weizmann Foundation (2016)
The head of the first scientific medical unit to investigate stable isotope composition in pathological processes in humans (2018)
The author of “Interdisciplinary pathology” didactic project for EU PhD students.
Mentor of talented students in “Holistic pathology” author’s program.
Counselor in managing own scientific development based on the theory of business.