Agata Faron-Górecka is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She obtained her doctoral degree from the Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2020, she has served as the head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology at the Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and since 2021, she has been appointed as the proxy of the Director for human biological material at the Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a recipient of the Scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science for Young Researchers. In 2022, she was awarded the Scientific Prize of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests are focused on identifying endogenous markers of stress resilience, depression, and treatment-resistant depression. In her research, she combines advanced behavioral techniques with state-of-the-art biochemical and molecular tools. [ORCID: 0000-0002-8202-190X]