Julia Durzyńska

Julia Łucja Durzyńska (born 1976) is a Polish molecular biologist and virologist, professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Biography In 1995, she passed her matura examinations in Polish, English, and French at the St. Mary Magdalene High School in Poznań. During her studies, she spent a year in Paris as part of the Erasmus Programme.

In 2000, she completed her master's degree in molecular biology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Since 2005, she has worked at the Faculty of Biology at the Adam Mickiewicz University, initially as an assistant professor; she joined the Department of Genetics. She obtained her habilitation in 2015 based on her thesis entitled Wpływ insulinopodobnego czynnika wzrostu (IGF-1) na przebieg zakażeń wirusem brodawczaka u człowieka (The influence of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) on the course of human papillomavirus infections). In 2019, she assumed the position of professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University. She made research on cancer cell biology in the context of various growth factor isoforms and is interested in epigenetic regulation in cancer cells.

She is a transgender woman. In 2024, Novae Res published her debut novel, Gdy słońce wypieka sny, an autofictional novel about a transgender scientist.