Prof. Magdalena Chechlińska, PhD is a Head of Department of Cancer Biology at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland (NIO – PIB). She received M.Sci. degree in biology from Warsaw University, and PhD and Dr Habil. degrees in medical biology from the NIO – PIB. She has published on cancer microenvironment, cytokines, microRNAs, with a special emphasis on biomarkers. She has been awarded the The Jędrzej Śniadecki Memorial Award, the most prestigious prize of the Medical Department of the Polish Academy of Sciences, for a series of papers on cancer biomarkers. She has conceived and implemented the idea to develop ONKOSYS, a comprehensive IT platform for cancer research at the NIO – PIB (a EU grant of 6 mln. Euro). She is the Editor in Chief of Tumor Biology, and serves on the Editorial Boards of BMC Cancer and of Contemporary Oncology. She is a member of the Scientific Board of the NIO – PIB and a chairman of the Scientific Board of the Children’s Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw.