Affiliation: Medical University of Warsaw

Dr. Kaja Kasarełło received her BS in Biology from Warsaw University in 2007. She then obtained her PhD from the Department of Neuropeptides at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2014 for her studies on oral tolerance induction to treat animal models of multiple sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease of autoimmune background.

Since 2014, she has worked at Warsaw Medical University, where she continues her work on neurodegenerative disease therapies. She also focuses on neurodegeneration in ophthalmic tissues in conditions such as glaucoma and retinopathies induced by diabetes or hypertension.