Driven by scientific curiosity, Kinga has gained a broad range of expertise in engineering, medical physics and environmental science. She joined VHIO in November 2019 and has focused on investigating tumor heterogeneity and integrating multi-omics data in predictive models for immunotherapy.
Scientific trajectory
Her academic journey started at Gdańsk University of Technology, where she obtained an engineering degree (B.Sc. in Environmental Protection and Management). She had always been interested in physics and soon after received her M.Sc. (Nuclear Engineering) and Ph.D. (Physics) degrees from ETH Zurich. Working with Tony Lomax at the Paul Scherrer Institute and later as a post-doc at UCLouvain, she contributed to the development of respiratory-motion-adapted imaging and delivery technologies for proton therapy of cancer patients. As a senior post-doc at the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, she was awarded an MSCA-COFUND grant Beatriu de Pinós to focus on investigating tumor heterogeneity using imaging habitats technique and developing multi-omics signature for predicting response to immunotherapy.
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Latest articles
K Bernatowicz, F Grussu, M Ligero, A Garcia, E Delgado, R Perez-Lopez. Robust imaging habitat computation using voxel-wise radiomics features. Scientific Reports 11, 20133 (2021); doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99701-2.
M Ligero🞱, K Bernatowicz🞱, R Perez-Lopez. The Role of CT-Based Radiomics in Precise Imaging of Renal Cancer. Journal of Nephrological Science 3(2), 1-7 (2021); url: https://www.nephrojournal.com. 🞱joint first authors.
M Ligero, O Jordi-Ollero, K Bernatowicz, et al., R Perez-Lopez. Minimizing acquisition-related radiomics variability by image resampling and batch effect correction to allow for large-scale data analysis. European Radiology 31, 1460–1470 (2020); doi: 10.1007/s00330-020-07174-0.
Recent grants and awards
2019 Beatriu de Pinós post-doctoral fellowship. “Improving patient Selection for immunotherapy: Multi-Omics signature for Response Evaluation (ISeeMORE)”. Role: principal investigator (fellow). Duration: 10/2020-09/2023.
