Education

Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University, 2013

Current position

Clinical analyst at HTA Consulting in Krakow, Poland

Publications

1. Czarnecka, M., Trinh, E., Lu, C., Kuan-Celarier, A., Galli, S., Hong, S. H., Tilan, J. U., Talisman, N., Izycka-Swieszewska, E., Tsuei, J., Yang, C., Martin, S., Horton, M., Christian, D., Everhart, L., Maheswaran, I. and Kitlinska, J. (2015). Neuropeptide Y receptor Y5 as an inducible pro-survival factor in neuroblastoma: implications for tumor chemoresistance. Oncogene 34(24): 3131-3143.

2. Tilan, J. U., Lu, C., Galli, S., Izycka-Swieszewska, E., Earnest, J. P., Shabbir, A., Everhart, L. M., Wang, S., Martin, S., Horton, M., Mahajan, A., Christian, D., O'Neill, A., Wang, H., Zhuang, T., Czarnecka, M., Johnson, M. D., Toretsky, J. A. and Kitlinska, J. (2013). Hypoxia shifts activity of neuropeptide Y in Ewing sarcoma from growth-inhibitory to growth-promoting effects. Oncotarget 4(12): 2487-2501.

3. Lu, C., Tilan, J. U., Everhart, L., Czarnecka, M., Soldin, S. J., Mendu, D. R., Jeha, D., Hanafy, J., Lee, C. K., Sun, J., Izycka-Swieszewska, E., Toretsky, J. A. and Kitlinska, J. (2011). Dipeptidyl peptidases as survival factors in Ewing sarcoma family of tumors: implications for tumor biology and therapy. J Biol Chem 286(31): 27494-27505.

4. Kuo, L. E., Czarnecka, M., Kitlinska, J. B., Tilan, J. U., Kvetnansky, R. and Zukowska, Z. (2008). Chronic stress, combined with a high-fat/high-sugar diet, shifts sympathetic signaling toward neuropeptide Y and leads to obesity and the metabolic syndrome. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1148: 232-237.