Dr. Pawel Swietach

Biography

Pawel Swietach is a Professor of Physiology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, where he leads the Proton Transport Group. He obtained his degree in Physiological Sciences from Oxford, winning the Physiological Society Prize in 2001, and completed his DPhil in Physiology in 2004 exploring spatial control of pH in the heart. His post-doctoral work involved collaborations with Richard Vaughan-Jones and Kenneth Spitzer, focusing on calcium signaling in cardiac cells. Swietach was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2008 to extend his research into cancer pH biology, which was influenced by mentorship from Adrian Harris. In 2017, he secured a European Research Council Consolidator Grant focused on acidity selection in colorectal cancer and initiated a British Heart Foundation program on acidity-driven growth. He became a Professor in 2020 and was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2024. As a Fellow of the Physiological Society, Swietach is dedicated to advancing collaborative interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of chemistry and medicine. His research aims to translate pH biology into diagnostics and treatments for cardiology, oncology, and hematology.

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