Katarzyna Swist-Szulik
Newcastle upon Tyne University, UK
Biography
Katarzyna Swist-Szulik is working as a consultant in paediatric intensive care and has her passion in research on the role of mitochondria in inflammatory signalling. She is pursuing her PhD on the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in intercellular crosstalk between myeloid and non-myeloid cells. There are building evidence that mitochondria-inflammatory interactions are relevant to many disease processes such as inflammatory myopathies, neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmune diseases as well as multi-organ failure and drug induced sterile inflammation. Katarzyna is working on developing the translation research investigating mitochondria-inflammatory relationship. Outside work Katarzyna is a mother of two wonderful children, an adventurer, ultramarathon runner and finisher of Marathon des Sables in 2015.