Doctoral Student Coauthored Research That Could Transform Cancer Treatment
May 4, 2026
As a doctoral student at Rutgers-Newark, Maciej Jeziorek has already accomplished what many scientists take years to achieve: He has coauthored eight biomedical academic papers, including research that could transform the treatment of cancer.
Over the past three years, Jeziorek was a key collaborator on a groundbreaking nanotechnology, published last December in Nature Communications, which offers a new approach for cancer research. The project demonstrated that RNA molecules can assemble themselves into precise shapes inside living human cells and potentially be programmed to stop the propagation of harmful cells.
“Maciej has a drive for science that is unparalleled to many other students,” says Jean-Pierre Etchegaray, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Rutgers–Newark and Jeziorek’s thesis advisor. “He’s the type of scientist in the making who will do well, no matter where he goes.”
Jeziorek emigrated from Poland at the age of 14, three years after his mother, who was widowed, arrived in the United States hoping to find a better life. His mother found work as a house cleaner and settled in Wallington, Bergen County, a community known as “Little Warsaw” because of its large concentration of Polish Americans.
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Reposted from Rutgers Today