Dr. Monika Trzpis

Monika Trzpis studied Biotechnology at the University of Wroclaw (Poland), where she specialized in molecular biology. In the last year of her Master’s programme, an Erasmus Mundus exchange scholarship enabled her to come to the Netherlands to conduct research at the UG’s Biological Centre in Haren. From 2003 to 2007 she worked on a PhD project at the department of Pathology and Medical Biology at the UMCG, developing expertise in the fields of fundamental biological and translational oncological research. She defended her PhD thesis, entitled ‘The double face of EpCAM’ in 2007.

Since 2014, Monika Trzpis has been a postdoc researcher and scientific coordinator at the Anorectal Physiology Laboratory Groningen (APLG). She coordinates and supervises the clinical and translational research of PhD students and medical students who are members of the APLG. She is involved in writing grant proposals and articles, and is responsible for the maintenance of the APLG website.