Plenary speakers
Plenary speakers
Harnessing Big Data in Neuroscience: Strategic Insights into Data Sharing and Machine Learning Applications
https://www.med.uio.no/english/people/adm/fac/management/jang/
Józef Dulak, PhD, DSc, is the professor and head of the Department of Medical Biotechnology at the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He is elected member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of Academia Europaea. Currently he is the vice-chairman of the Committee of Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He worked as post-doctoral fellow at Free University in Amsterdam (1991), University in Muenster (1994) and Stanford University (1997), and was the research fellow at the University of Innsbruck (1999-2001). He is the doctor honoris causa of the University of Orleans in France (2012), received the “Dr. Luis Federico Leloir” Award from the Argentinian Ministry of Science and Technology (2014), and has been invited to lecture at numerous international conferences and foreign institutions, including the visiting professorship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (2010) and at the University of Orleans (2009, 2013). From 2013 to 2020 he was the coordinator of the International Associated Laboratory (LIA) of the Jagiellonian University and CBM CNRS in Orleans, he was the president of the European Vascular Biology Organization (EVBO) – 2013-2017.
He conducts research on molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases and genetic neuromuscular diseases, including the function of stem cells and the possibilities of genetic and cell therapies. He is the co-author of more than 280 papers (h-index is 56), and is the co-inventor of one patent. Prof. Dulak coordinated numerous grants (more than 13,5 million Euro in the last 10 years), both research and infrastructural.
