The future of discovery demands a group of talented scientists with unique training in both molecular biology and clinical medicine. Program „Molecular Genetics, Transcriptomics and Bioinformatics in Cancer” supported by Foundation for Polish Science has been constituted at the Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine. The project offers studentships and provides interdisciplinary postgraduate training focusing on application of recent high throughput technologies to study the molecular and genetic processes in cancer. It capitalizes on recent advances in understanding of molecular and genetic mechanisms regulating cancer development, as well as bioinformatic analysis of genomic and postgenomic data, and proposes an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to find gene signatures and/or novel predictive markers. In the project gene profiling data of thyroid cancers, soft tissue sarcoma, melanoma, glioma, lung, breast cancers and genome-wide data will be collected and analyzed with sophisticated computational and system biology methods to specify molecular pathways involved in carcinogenesis. Projects are carried out in laboratories located at: Medical University of Warsaw, M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial, Cancer Center-Institute of Oncology in Warsaw and Gliwice, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, Warsaw University, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, International Hereditary Cancer Centre, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin. All teams have developed successful scientific cooperation and students will be working part time in foreign Partner laboratories.
