Biography
Graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology (MSc. Eng. 2017). In October 2022 defended doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology entitled "Development of a Lab-on-a-chip flow microsystem for the creation and functional analysis of the pancreatic islet model in physiological conditions and type 2 diabetes." In 2019, she became the head of a project financed by the National Science Center - the Preludium 17 entitled: "Development of a new approach based on the use of a three-dimensional pancreatic islet model in the Lab-on-a-Chip microfluidic system to conduct high-throughput functional analysis in physiological and pathological conditions". Contractor in 3 research projects: NCBiR LIDER (2017) SONATA NCN (2017-2018), SONATA BIS NCN (since 2021). Since 2022, she has been working as a research assistant professor in the Laboratory of Biomedical Microfluidic Systems and Cellular Engineering. The conducted research concerns the development of microfluidic system for the culture of cellular models applicable in diagnostic research and research on new, potential therapeutic agents.
Research areas
- Design and production of microfluidic system for 2D and 3D cell culture,
- The use of microfluidic system to model organs and tissues,
- Research on biomaterials for applications in microfluidic systems
- Screening of potential therapeutic agents
Selected publications
- Sokolowska P., Jastrzebska E., Dobrzyn A., Brzozka Z., Investigation of the therapeutic potential of new antidiabetic compounds using Islet-on-a-chip microfluidic model, Biosensors 2022, 12(5):302.
- Sokolowska P., Zuchowska A., Brzozka Z., Why can organoids improve current Organ-on-Chip platforms? Organoids 2022, 1, 69–84.
- Sokołowska P., Żukowski K., Janikiewicz J., Jastrzębska E., Dobrzyń A., Brzózka Z. Islet-on-a-chip: Biomimetic micropillar-based microfluidic system for three-dimensional pancreatic islet cell culture. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 2021, 183, 1-8.
- Sokołowska P., Janikiewicz J., Jastrzębska E., Dobrzyń A., Brzózka Z. Combinations of regenerative medicine and Lab-on-a-chip systems: new hope to restoring the proper function of pancreatic islets in diabetes. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 2020, 167, 1-11.
- Sokołowska P., Żukowski K., Lasocka I., Szulc-Dabrowska L., Jastrzębska E. Human mesenchymal stem cell (hMSC) differentiation towards cardiac cells using a new microbioanalytical method. Analyst, 2020, 145, 3017-3028.
- Brzozka Z., Sokołowska P., Żukowski K., Janikiewicz J., Jastrzębska E., Dobrzyń A., Lab-on-a-Chip System for Developing and Fluorescence Imaging a Three-Dimensional Model of Pancreatic Islets Under Flow Conditions. 2020ECS Meeting Abstracts MA2020-01(27): 1984- 1984.
- Jastrzebska E., Zuchowska A., Flis S., Sokolowska P., Bulka M., Dybko A., Brzozka Z. Biological characterization of the modified poly(dimethylsiloxane) surfaces based on cell attachment and toxicity assays. Biomicrofluidics, 2018, 12, 044105.
- Kobuszewska A., Sokołowska P. Jastrzebska E. Cardiac Cell Culture Technologies: Microfluidic and On-Chip Systems, Rozdział 9: Cardiac Cell Culture Microtechnologies Based on Stem Cells. red. E. Jastrzebska, Z.Brzozka, Springer, 201-225 (rozdział w monografii).