David Aebisher graduated from the University of Wyoming in the United States, where he then obtained his Ph.D. in physical–organic chemistry. He obtained his habilitation in medical sciences at the Medical University of Silesia, in Poland. He has worked at the University of Wyoming, the University of Illinois in Chicago, the Shorter University, and the City University of New York in the United States. Now, he is a professor at the Medical College of the University of Rzeszów. His research has involved the localized release, delivery, and tracking of highly reactive anticancer and antimicrobial agents in biological media including bacteria, fungi, and cancer cell cultures. His current research is focused on the development of devices for the localized delivery of singlet oxygen for PDT, which is a treatment that uses a combination of light-absorbing photosensitizers (PS) and dissolved oxygen to kill cancer and a method that can be controlled with regards to the location of the treatment as it requires selective illumination of the treatment area with light.
Andrzej Bożek currently serves in the Clinical Department of Internal Medicine, Dermatology and Allergology, Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. Dr. Andrzej Bożek's clinical research interests relate to dermatology, and 914 publications indexed in Pubmed have appeared in many reputed international journals. His research interests include dermatology, allergology, and internal diseases.
Aleksandra Kawczyk-Krupka started to study medicine in 1987 and graduated from the Medical Academy of Silesia, Faculty of Medicine in Zabrze, on the 16th of June 1993 with honors. Her postgraduate internship was held at the clinics of the Silesian Medical Academy. After graduation, she was employed at the Specialist Hospital No. 2 in Bytom, in the Department of Internal Diseases. On October 1, 1997, she was appointed academic teacher for the position of assistant in the Medical Academy of Silesia (currently Medical University of Silesia, SUM) in the 3rd Department of Internal Medicine. As of October 1, 2005, she was appointed Assistant Professor at the Chair and Clinical Department of Internal Medicine, Angiology and Physical Medicine (formerly the III Department and Department of Internal Diseases), where she has been working until now. She received the degree of doctor of medicine (M.D., Ph.D.) on 5 March 1998 by the resolution of the Medical Faculty Council in Zabrze, Katowice, after the defense of the dissertation entitled “The viability and metabolism of J774.2 cells subjected to slow-moving magnetic fields”. The subject of her research is consistently focused on clinical and basic research in photodynamic diagnostics and therapy. It also includes modern clinical applications of physical medicine, and cardiovascular disease including chronic wounds, thromboembolism, microcirculation, and lymphedema.
Dorota Bartusik-Aebisher works at the University of Rzeszow in Poland and obtained a doctorate in organic chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology. Her research focuses on the applications of MRI to cancer treatments. Her research interests are the applications of 19F MR to drug tracking and visualization of cancer tissue. She worked intensively on new drug delivery systems for ovarian cancer cells OVCAR-5 in cooperation with Harvard Medical School in Boston and The City University of New York (CUNY, NY, USA). She has received numerous grants and scholarships allowing her to achieve many research successes.
