Aleksandra Markiewicz is a cancer researcher at the Laboratory of Translational Oncology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdańsk and Medical University of Gdańsk. She obtained her PhD in biochemistry in 2015 from the University of Gdansk and graduated from Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine (Warsaw). She obtained habilitation in medical sciences at the Medical University of Gdańsk in 2024. She conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Regensburg in the group of Prof. Christoph Klein, studying the molecular evolution of disseminated melanoma cells and metastatic colony formation.
Dr. Habil. Aleksandra Markiewicz
Her research focuses on the mechanisms of cancer aggressiveness and dissemination, particularly epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity and circulating tumour cells in breast cancer. She combines analysis of patient-derived material with single-cell genomic and transcriptomic approaches and experimental models to investigate tumour-cell heterogeneity and metastatic progression.
She has led projects funded by the National Science Centre and other national programmes and has participated in international projects on disseminated cancer cells, CTC enrichment and single-cell analysis. For her scientific achievements she received numerous awards, including START scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science, L’Oréal for Women in Science, Scholarship of the Ministry of Education for young researchers, Wacław Szybalski Award from the Polish Academy of Science, Scholarship of Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Team members
Agnieszka Stankiewicz, M.A.
Zuzanna Kulik, M.A.
Alicja Staśczak, M.A.
Dominika Nowiczkow
Former members and alumni
Anna Nagel, Ph.D.
Justyna Topa, Ph.D.
Wiktor Grudniewski
Marcin Banacki
Magdalena Śliwińska
Łukasz Arcimowicz, Ph.D.
Agata Leśniewska
Wiktoria Martysiewicz
Julia Smentoch
Collaborators
Gdynia Oncology Centre
Medical University of Łódź
Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice
Gdańsk University of Technology
International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science in Gdańsk
The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań
Department of Pathomorphology, Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Laboratory of Experimental Immunology of the Medical University of Gdańsk
International collaborations
University of Bergen, Norway
University of Regensburg, Germany
Indian Institute of Technology, India
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, China
Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic