Education: 2° PhD (2015): University of Teramo, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Teramo, Italy; 1° PhD (2012): Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Krakow, Poland and Department of Neuroscience, Centre for Neurovirology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA; MS (2004): Jagiellonian University, Cell Biology Department, Krakow, Poland.
Work Experience: 2014 - RIKEN, Bioresource Engineering Division, Tsukuba, Japan (JSPS Fellowship); 2007- present: Faculty of Veterinary, Teramo University, Teramo, Italy; 2004-2007: Department of Neuroscience, Centre for Neurovirology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.
Number of publications: 37,
Book chapters: 2;
Patents: 2014 Co-inventor of patent “Direct protaminisation of somatic cells improves SCNT efficiency”;
Major Awards: 2016 - Prize for best poster “Exogenous Expression of Human Protamine 1 (hPrm1) Remodels Fibroblast Nuclei into Spermatid-like Structures” awarded by Sir Gurdon (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012) during the International Symposium on Future of Nuclear transfer and Nuclear Reprogramming 10 March in Yamanashi (Japan); 2013 - Japan Society forthe Promotion of Science, Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (RIKEN, Tsukuba, Japan); 2013 - Research Grant from JSPS for Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (at Prof. A. Ogura laboratory);
Czernik’s H index is 15, with over 603 citations.
Czernik’s full publications list is available on:
https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=oYnZFLkAAAAJ