Zbyszek Darzynkiewicz
Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz b. 1936 in Dzisna, is a Polish-American cell biologist active in cancer research and in developing new methodologies in flow cytometry.
Darzynkiewicz is a professor in the Department of Pathology, & Department of Medicine at New York Medical College – a member of the Touro College and University System, and the director of its Brander Cancer Research Institute.
From 1985 to 1990, he was member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. His professional affiliations include member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. and of the Polish Academy of Learning. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering previously serving as president of the Cell Cycle Society and as president of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Open Medicine, a founding member of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry and a trustee of the Kosciuszko Foundation. From 1986 to 1999 he was an advisory board member to The Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation, which annually awarded the Jurzykowski Prize.
Darzynkiewicz is the recipient of an honorary degree from Medical University of Warsaw in Poland, the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Award from the Jozef Pilsudski Institute in America and the Casimir Funk Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.
