Professor Darek Gorecki
Biography
Darek Gorecki was born in Warsaw, Poland where he read medicine and obtained his PhD. His key research interest is pathogenesis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. He started research in this area as a post-doctoral fellow in the Molecular Neurobiology Unit, University of Cambridge under Professor Eric A Barnard, FRS. He continued it at the Royal Free & University College Medical School in London working as a research fellow and later obtained a personal Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship. After moving to his present laboratory in 1024ºË¹¤³§ he has worked as a Senior Lecturer, Reader and, since 2007, Professor of Molecular Medicine. He is the Director of Research in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences. In 2011 he won Distinguished Fulbright Scholarship to work at Harvard Medical School, USA researching the role of specific ATP receptors in muscular dystrophy.
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Research interests
Pathogenesis and treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, role of the dystrophin complex in the brain, purinoceptors, gene therapy using non-viral vectors.
Research outputs
2024
Górecki, D. C., Pomeroy, J., Rumney, R. M. H.
25 Jun 2024, In: Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 11p., e30617
Alnassar, N., Banna, G. L., Derry, J. M. J., Gorecki, D. C.
29 Apr 2024, In: Translational Lung Cancer Research. 13, 4, p. 733-748
Adinolfi, E., Boldrini, P., Chiozzi, P., Di Virgilio, F., Falzoni, S., Giuliani, A. L., Gorecki, D., Morciano, G., Tang, Y., Tarantini, M., Vultaggio-Poma, V.
17 Apr 2024, In: Function
2023
Górecki, D. C., Oksiejuk, A., Róg, J., Zabłocki, K.
1 Dec 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 1, 18p., 9333
Górecki, D. C., Zabłocki, K.
29 May 2023, In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24, 11, 15p., 9434
Alles, N., Guille, M., Górecki, D. C.
1 Mar 2023, In: Developmental Dynamics. 252, 3, p. 429-438, 10p.
Alnassar, N., Borczyk, M., Górecki, D. C., Han, N., Korostynski, M., Tsagkogeorga, G.
21 Feb 2023, In: Cancers. 15, 5, 28p., 1378