Dr. Pawel Laniewski earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Warsaw in Poland followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. He joined the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix in 2015. He is currently a research scientist in the Herbst-Kralovetz lab in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences and an associate member of the University of Arizona Cancer Center. His research focuses on in vitro modeling of complex host-microbe interactions to study pathophysiological mechanisms in gynecologic cancer and women’s health. Additionally, he has extensive expertise in translational clinical research regarding cervical and endometrial cancer, with specific interest in how microbiota-host interactions impact female reproductive health and disease.