Michalina Gora
Michalina Gora is a Group Leader at the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering. Her work centers on investigating the connection between the gut and the brain, with the aim of developing novel light-based neurotechnologies to improve the management of neurological and digestive disorders.
She obtained her PhD in Physics and Biomedical Engineering in 2010 from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. Subsequently, she was a postdoctoral researcher and junior faculty in the team of Prof. Guillermo Tearney at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. In 2015 she joined the ICube Laboratory at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) where she led a research group focused on combining optical imaging methods with robotics for comprehensive diagnosis and improved minimally invasive treatment of diseases.
Her work is motivated by solving medical problems and her approach is to interlink the scientific development with regulatory guidelines from the very beginning of the project. She has over ten years of experience in academic interdisciplinary research in close collaboration with medical doctors. She previously developed, and translated to ‘first in human’, Optical Coherence Tomography imaging devices for ophthalmology and gastroenterology.
Michalina is currently leading NeuroGI, a Wyss Center project supported by the European Research Council.
Michalina has long experience in using light to improve disease diagnoses and treatment. She interlinks multidisciplinary scientific development with regulatory guidelines from an early stage to enable successful translation to the clinic.