Piotr is a Bernard B. Levine Postdoctoral Fellow in Immunology at the New York Grossman School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University, Poland, where he investigated the role of an RNase, MCPIP1, in skin physiology and pathophysiology.
In 2019, he joined Dr. Shruti Naik’s lab, where his postdoctoral training focuses on decoding the crosstalk between immune and epithelial cells during tissue repair and carcinogenesis. In doing so he discovered a new repair mechanism that directs the metabolic rewiring of damaged skin towards a program of glycolysis to fuel migration and skin repair.
Piotr has been recognized for his work and received several awards including the Young Innovator Award in Tissue Regeneration and Limb Preservation from the Peter Sheehan Diabetes Foundation, Research Award for Young Researchers from the European Society for Dermatological Research, Etiuda Fellowship from the Polish National Science Center, and the National Psoriasis Foundation Early Career Research Grant.