The prof. Sikora’s team consisting of dr hab. Anna Bielak-Zmijewska, dr hab. Grazyna Mosieniak, dr Małgorzata Piechota and prof. Ewa Sikora, received the distinction of the Department II of Biological and Agricultural Sciences  Polish Academy of Sciences for a series of papers published in 2014-2016 entitled: "Reactive oxygen and damage to double-stranded DNA in cellular senescence - breaking paradigms":

Anna Bielak-Zmijewska, Maciej Wnuk, Dorota Przybylska, Wioleta Grabowska, Anna Lewinska, Olga Alster, Zbigniew Korwek, Anna Cmoch, Aleksander Myszka, Slawomir Pikula, Grazyna Mosieniak, Ewa Sikora. A comparison of replicative senescence and doxorubicin-induced premature senescence of vascular smooth muscle cells isolated from human aorta. Biogerontology 2014 Feb;15(1):47-64.

Olga Alster, Anna Bielak-Zmijewska, Grazyna Mosieniak,  Maria Moreno-Villanueva, Monika Kusio-Kobiałka, Zbigniew Korwek, Alexander Burkle, Katarzyna Piwocka, Jan Konrad Siwicki, Ewa Sikora. The role of nibrin in DNA damage-induced apoptosis and cell senescence in Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome patients lymphocytes. PLoS One. 2014 Aug 13;9(8):e104964

Grabowska W, Kucharewicz K, Wnuk M, Lewinska A, Suszek M, Przybylska D,Mosieniak G, Sikora E, Bielak-Zmijewska A. Curcumin induces senescence of primary human cells building the vasculature in a DNA damage and ATM-independent manner. Age (Dordr). 2015 Feb;37(1):9744.

Grabowska W, Suszek M, Wnuk M, Lewinska A, Wasiak E, Sikora E, Bielak-Zmijewska A. Curcumin elevates sirtuin level but does not postpone in vitro senescence of human cells building the vasculature. Oncotarget. 2016 Apr 12;7(15):19201-13.

Mosieniak G, Sliwinska MA, Przybylska D, Grabowska W, Sunderland P, Bielak-Zmijewska A, Sikora E. Curcumin-treated cancer cells show mitotic disturbances leading to growth arrest and induction of senescence phenotype. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2016 May;74:33-43.

Przybylska D, Janiszewska D, Goździk A, Bielak-Zmijewska A, Sunderland P, Sikora E, Mosieniak G. NOX4 downregulation leads to senescence of human vascular smooth muscle cells. Oncotarget. 2016; Oct; 7(41):66429-66443.

Piechota M, Sunderland P, Wysocka A, Nalberczak M, Sliwinska MA, Radwanska K, Sikora E. Is senescence-associated ß-galactosidase a marker of neuronal senescence? Oncotarget. 2016; Dec 6;7(49):81099-81109

Grazyna Mosieniak,  Malgorzata A. Sliwinska, Olga Alster, Anna Strzeszewska, Piotr Sunderland,  Malgorzata Piechota, Halina Was  and Ewa Sikora. Polyploidy formation in doxorubicin-treated cancer cells can favour escape from senescence. Neoplasia, 2015 Dec;17(12):882-93.