Rafał Artur Świechowski, is an assistant professor and a member of the Polish Laboratory Diagnostic Society. From 2015 to 2019, they undertook doctoral studies at the Medical University of Lodz, ultimately completing their Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and graduating in 2020. From 2010 to 2015, they completed a Master's in Laboratory Medicine at the Medical University of Lodz, Faculty of Pharmacy, Poland. Since 2016, they have been working as teaching assistant at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, Medical University of Lodz, Poland, where they have also worked as an assistant professor since December 2020. Between 2017 and 2019, they worked as a research assistant at the Laboratory of Molecular Studies on Fertility Disorders of the Polish Mother Memorial Hospital, Lodz, Poland. Their current and previous research interests include the molecular basis of depressive disorder, pharmacogenomics, inflammatory theory of depression, etiology of fertility disorders, and acute myeloid leukaemia.