Zbyszek Darzynkiewicz

Zbigniew (Zbyszek) Darzynkiewicz (born in 1936 in Dzisna^[1] – 28 February 2021)^[2] was a Polish-American cell biologist active in cancer research and in developing new methodologies in flow cytometry.^[3][4]

Darzynkiewicz was 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.^[5][6]

From 1985 to 1990, he was member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College.^[7] His professional affiliations include member (foreign) of the Polish Academy of Sciences.^[8] and of the Polish Academy of Learning.^[9] He was a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering^[10] previously (1986-1987) serving as president of the Cell Cycle Society and (1993–1994) as president of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry.^[11][12] He was Editor-in-Chief of the Open Medicine,^[13] a founding member of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry^[14] and a trustee of the Kosciuszko Foundation.^[15] From 1986 to 1999 he was an advisory board member to The Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation, which annually awarded the Jurzykowski Prize.^[16]

Darzynkiewicz was the recipient of an honorary degree from Medical University of Warsaw in Poland,^[17][18] the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Award from the Jozef Pilsudski Institute in America^[19] and the Casimir Funk Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.^[20]

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