Tomasz Brzoska

Assistant Professor of Medicine @PittVMI @PittHemeOnc. Interested in platelet, vascular and lung biology.

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

We aim to develop new strategies to help #SickleCellDisease patients live their best lives possible. @PittTweet @PittDeptofMed @PittHematology @PittVMI @CBI_Pitt https://t.co/NoxxO0jvTn

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

Circulating Tissue Factor promotes Pulmonary Arterial Thrombosis. In vivio imaging-packed publication from our group is out!
Thanks to all collaborators! @PittTweet @PittDeptofMed @PittVMI @PittHematology @CBI_Pitt https://t.co/2Wf6ALUdiK

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

See how personalized medicine can potentially benefit #SickleCellDisease patients!
Big thanks to all collaborators and contributors, especially @PrithuSundd, Tomasz Kaminski. @PittTweet @PittVMI @PittDeptofMed @PittHematology https://t.co/lVNZLGZVeb

[Edward Reid @ReidEdwardII]

When we hear the word Holocaust, we think of the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews, but history is not complete if we neglect to speak also of the 3 million Christian Poles, men, women, and children, who were also murdered by the Germans during that same horrific chapter of human history.

Poland was the first to resist Hitler, and the first to be invaded, not just by one monster, but by two. On September 1, 1939, Germany attacked from the west. Just 17 days later, on September 17, Soviet Russia invaded from the east. The two totalitarian powers met in the middle and tore the country apart.

Under the German occupation, Poland was turned into a vast killing ground. Entire villages were burned. Priests, teachers, doctors, and intelligentsia were rounded up and shot. Catholic churches were desecrated. Poles were forced into concentration camps, slave labor, and mass executions. Auschwitz, often remembered only as a Jewish site of horror, was originally built to imprison Polish prisoners.

By war’s end, over 3 million ethnic Poles were dead. They were not collateral damage. They were targeted for extermination as part of Hitler’s plan to destroy the Polish nation, erase its culture, and repopulate its territory with Germans. This was genocide in every sense.

But that was only one half of the nightmare.

In the east, the Soviet NKVD and Communist terror apparatus launched their own war on the Polish soul. Over a million and a half Poles were deported to Siberia, many dying in gulags or frozen wastelands. In Katyn Forest, more than 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals were executed in cold blood on Stalin’s orders. For decades, this massacre was blamed on the Germans only in the 1990s did Russia finally admit the truth.

Polish resistance, fought both against Germans and Soviets, it was immense, courageous, and nearly suicidal. The Warsaw Uprising of 1944, largely fought by teenagers and civilians, was crushed while Soviet forces watched from across the river. Tens of thousands were killed, and the city was deliberately razed afterward.

Yet in the decades that followed, Poland’s suffering has too often been ignored, minimized, or distorted. In Western discourse, Poles have been labeled as bystanders, even perpetrators, rarely as victims. The complexity of dual occupation, the betrayal at Yalta, the erasure of postwar Soviet crimes, and the moral courage of those who resisted have been pushed to the margins.

This silence is not just unjust, it is cruel. It denies a grieving nation the dignity of remembrance. It erases the price paid by millions of Pole who bled on the same soil, under the same boots.

To remember Polish suffering is not to diminish the Holocaust, it is to complete the picture. To honor all victims of tyranny and to recognize that Poland was not just a battlefield, it was a crucifixion ground.

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

@domi_dlugosz Pani @domi_dlugosz , a audiobook będzie?

[PittDeptofMed @PittDeptofMed]

🔬Interested in biomedical research? Stop by booth 1008 at this year's @ABRCMS conference and meet with @SrutiShiva to discuss @NIH-funded pre- and post-doctoral training positions available in the @PittTweet Department of Medicine!

#ABRCMS2024 #T32Training #ResearchOpportunity

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

@iga_swiatek we love you, no matter what! 💔❤️‍🩹❤️❤️‍🔥

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

@PrithuSundd @isth @SunddLab @VersitiResearch @Versiti Congratulations! Great job!

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

@sparkenbaughlab @PittVMI @duqedu @sparkenbaughlab we are very excited to have you here!

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

Happy Holidays Everyone! 🎉🎉🎉

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

@historyinmemes Penicillin. No doubts.

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

@iga_swiatek Iga, jesteś wielka. Gratulacje!

[Prithu Sundd @PrithuSundd]

Thank you @BloodResearchWI and @Versiti for this opportunity. Thank you Dr. Ken Harris @ 101.7 The Truth Radio for inviting to his afternoon show.

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

@PrithuSundd @BloodResearchWI @Versiti Fantastic interview. 👏

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

@domi_dlugosz Janusz Kowalski ministrem spraw zagranicznych

[Prithu Sundd @PrithuSundd]

New study in @Haematologica by us @SunddLab @BloodResearchWI reports the efficacy of the first subcutaneously administrable dual P-selectin and complement inhibitor in preventing vaso-occlusion in Sickle Cell Disease mice. Thanks to all coauthors.
https://t.co/LVf27EQ5w7

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

The Brzoska Lab is currently seeking for a Postdoctoral Associate. For additional information, please refer to the link provided: https://t.co/oegmw3sQrM

Please help us to spread the word!

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

I am extremely excited for all of the fantastic research to come! Stay tuned. More news to come soon.

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

I am thrilled to share that, with the beginning of October, I have assumed the position of an Assistant Professor at the @PittVMI and the @PittHemeOnc at the @PittDeptofMed, @PittTweet. Brzoska Lab will be broadly studying #hemostasis regulation in health and disease.

[Tomasz Brzoska @brzoska_tomasz]

First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who has contributed to my success, especially my former mentors, Drs @PrithuSundd and @TetsuUrano. Secondly, big thanks to the @PittVMI and the @PittDeptofMed for this opportunity.