Marta Sochocka has completed a Ph.D at the Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, and postgraduate studies at University of Economics and Innovation in Lublin, Poland, as Manager of Research Projects. Currently, she works as an assistant professor. She is also the president of the Team for the Quality of Doctoral Studies at IITD. She is a member of the Polish Virological Society and a member of the editorial team of the Advances in Hygiene and Experimental Medicine journal. She has completed internships: at the University of Toronto in the Translational Psychiatry Biomarkers Laboratory at the Center for Addiction, at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in the USA and Mental Health and at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw. She is the author of twenty-five scientific papers (original and review), two chapters in academic textbooks, and three Polish patents. Dr Sochocka has 15 years of experience in studying the mechanisms of innate immune response, both in vitro and ex vivo with healthy subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease. She has participated as a researcher in several research projects financed by national and international scientific institutions. In 2016 she was a guest speaker at TEDxWroclaw "Break the Silence" created with the Musical Theatre Capitol with the speech: Sugar can change your mind.