Łukasz Szymański earned his Ph.D. in medical sciences at the age of 25 from the Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, investigating the Fas/FasL dependent signalling pathway in atopic dermatitis. He then became deputy head of the Department of Microwave Safety and head of the Interdepartmental GLP Laboratory. He has held fellowships at the Institute of Genetics and Development in Rennes, France with Prof. Jacek Kubiak and at the Translational Vectorology, Vector and Genome Engineering Facility, Children’s Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia with Prof. Leszek Lisowski. In 2016, he also started working at Konmex BioLabs, where he is an R&D manager. His scientific interests are mainly focused on cancer, immunology and bioengineering.