Róża Przanowska

NCI K00 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biomedical Engineering

Contact

rkw4f@virginia.edu

Lab

MR5 Rm. 2225

Shipping: 415 Lane Road | MR5 2225
PO BOx 800759
Charlottesville, VA 22904

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About

Dr. Róża Kamila Przanowska is a Polish molecular biologist specializing in non-coding RNAs in cancer and development. Currently, Przanowska is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr. Kevin Janes’s laboratory at UVA, where she investigates the heterogeneity of long non-coding RNAs in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Her work has been recognized through several awards, including the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (2018), the F99/K00 NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (2020), the Graduate Biosciences Society Student Leadership Award (2021), the BME Postdoc Research and Scholarship Award (2023), and the BME Postdoc Leadership and Service Award (2024). In 2024, she was named a Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research Postdoctoral Scholar.

Przanowska earned her B.Sc. (2013) and M.Sc. (2016) degrees in biotechnology from the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her training included international experiences as a Summer Intern at the Max Planck Institute in Bad Nauheim, Germany (2014) and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA (2015). She completed her Ph.D. at UVA in 2021 under the mentorship of Dr. Anindya Dutta with a dissertation titled “Essentiality and Functional Importance of Short and Long Non-Coding RNAs in Myogenesis.”

Education

PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia

MSc in Biotechnology: Stem cells in biology and medicine, University of Warsaw, Poland

BSc in Biotechnology, University of Warsaw, Poland

Keywords

Organoids

ncRNA biology

lncRNA structure-function

Awards

Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research Postdoctoral Scholar Grant (2024)

UVA Biomedical Engineering Department Postdoc Research and Scholarship Award (2023) & BME Postdoc Leadership and Service Award (2024)

University of Virginia School of Medicine Graduate Biosciences Society Student Leadership Award (2021)

National Institutes of Health F99/K00 NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (2020)

American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (2018)

Featured Grants & Projects

NIH K00CA253732 | F99CA253732 National Cancer Institute Long non-coding RNA Heterogeneity in ER + Breast Cancer

NIH RePORTER

Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research Predicting radioresistance risk using primary luminal breast cancer organoids and gene expression signatures

UVA Coulter Center