Mateusz Wietecha

Dr. Wietecha was appointed Assistant Professor of the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry in September 2022. He completed the DMD/PhD dual-degree program at UIC in 2015, and his doctoral research in the lab of Dr. Luisa DiPietro was funded by the Dental Scientist Fellowship through the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). From 2015-2022, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher and senior research scientist in the lab of Prof. Dr. Sabine Werner at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zurich), where his research was performed in the context of the SKINTEGRITY.CH national consortium. The Wietecha Lab is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) and the Wound Healing Society (WHS) Research Grant Award. The lab uses emerging multi-omic tools such as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics in conjunction with state-of-the-art systems biology and bioinformatics approaches to investigate the spatio-temporal cellular and molecular dynamics of differential healing outcomes.