Affiliation: Ludwig Boltzmann Research Group, Austria
Keywords: Aging, cellular senescence, wound healing, regeneration, skin aging, inflammation.
Full profile: Mikolaj Ogrodnik is a group leader at the LBG Senescence and Healing of Wounds. He received his PhD at the Newcastle Institute for Ageing (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) and did his post-doctoral research at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN, US). Ogrodnik’s laboratory explores a wide range of subjects including the early-onset responses of skin to injury, the mechanisms of scar formation, molecular basis of cell senescence in skin, relationship between cytoskeletal proteins and cell migration and engineering of artificial skin. For that, the laboratory utilizes methods including high-resolution histology, in vitro cell culture, transgenic and wild-type pre-clinical models of wounding and ageing, bioinformatics including single-cell RNA sequencing and tissue engineering. The aim of this research is to broaden our understanding about healing and aging of skin and to improve the lives of people with non-healing wounds.