Bozena Kaminska is head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. She obtained her PhD in biochemistry at the Nencki Institute in 1991 and after postdoctoral training at the Mc Gill University in Montreal, Canada, she become a full professor in 2003 at the Nencki Institute and the director of the Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine of the Medical University of Warsaw (from 2009). She was a visiting researcher at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA in Los Angeles, USA and the Nanshan Scholar professor at the Medical University of Guangzhou, China. She is an elected member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2016) and European Molecular Biology Organization (2022). In 2021 she received a prestigious Foundation for Polish Science Award in life sciences.
She specializes in molecular neurobiology, neuro-oncology and neuroimmunology, with focus on functions of microglia. Prof. Kaminska’s lab employs multidisciplinary approaches combining in vivo experiments in rodent models of human pathologies and in vitro experiments in primary cultures, cerebral organoids and human induced pluripotent stem cells organoids. She has pioneered single-cell omics studies of brain tumor microenvironment in experimental gliomas. In recent years her group has been exploring transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms in microglia in response to environmental exposures and experience.