Rafal Dziadziuszko MD, PhD

Professor Rafal Dziadziuszko completed his training in Radiotherapy (2001) and Medical Oncology (2004) at the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy of the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland. He subsequently completed a translational cancer research fellowship at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Between 2005 and 2007 he worked on predictive assays for EGFR targeted therapies in lung cancer, including immunohistochemistry, gene copy number, and activating mutations.

His fellowship was funded by the International Union Against Cancer and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. He then returned to his home institution to serve as a deputy chair of the department, and medical coordinator of the Early Clinical Trials Unit. Prof. Dziadziuszko’s main interests include lung cancer translational and clinical research, and he is a co-author of over 170 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on this topic, including the Lung Cancer chapter in a recent edition of the Oxford Textbook of Oncology.