Dr. Barbara Ciastek has been employed as an associate professor at the Department of Pathophysiology of Nicolaus Copernicus University since 2010. In 2003, she graduated in laboratory medicine from the Medical University of Bydgoszcz, and then began doctoral studies at the same university and received a PhD in 2007. In 2008, she started working at the Department of Pathophysiology of the Faculty of Pharmacy as an Assistant. In 2016, based on her scientific achievements and the submitted thesis "The Function of the Vascular Endothelium and Metabolic Changes in Postmenopausal Women and Patients with Type 2 Diabetes", she obtained the academic degree of doctor habilitates in medical sciences in the field of medical biology at the Faculty of  Pharmacy, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Białystok. In 2023, she accomplished a 4-week non-credit professional certificate in artificial intelligence in medicine from the Cambridge Centre For Innovation And Development. In 2022, she obtained the title of specialist in the field of Laboratory Medical Genetics at the Medical Examination Center in Łódź. Her research topics mainly include breast cancer, hemostasis,  endothelia, diabetes, obesity, and adipocytokines.