Bartosz L. Sikorski, MD, PhD
MD, PhD, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Board Representative for Medical Research
Optical diagnostic imaging, ocular diseases, artificial intelligence in medical imaging
Bartosz L. Sikorski is a clinician scientist and surgeon. He graduated from Medicine at Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) and also studied at Imperial College London, University of Oxford and Harvard University. He trained in Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgery at the Department of Ophthalmology, NCU and obtained the title of the Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology in Paris, France.
He was a member of the Optical Bioimaging Group, led by Prof. Wojtkowski at NCU, which developed and constructed the world’s first spectral domain OCT (SOCT) tomograph. Between 2004 and 2005, he performed nearly 3,000 examinations on a SOCT clinical prototype at the Department of Ophthalmology, NCU validating the technology and then participated in its first worldwide commercialization.
In 2012, together with Prof. Wojtkowski, he presented the first clinical results of OCT angiography application at the American Academy of Ophthalmology. In 2017, he introduced Split-Window OCT Biometry. And in 2023, he showed the first preliminary clinical results of OCT tonometry.
Over the past several years, he has been the Principal Investigator and National Coordinator for a number of clinical trials, and was involved in the design of some of them. He is the co-author of the worldwide patent “Methods of improving retina-associated disease outcome using ccr3-inhibitors” and the Atlas of AMD Diagnosis and Treatment. He is also the Medical Research Director of the AI development program in eye disease detection at the Optopol Technology Research and Development Centre in Poznan and the Head of the Genetic Engineering Unit at the Oculomedica Research and Development Centre in Bydgoszcz.
He has performed more than 10,000 anterior and posterior segment intraocular surgeries. He also gained additional experience in vitreoretinal surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. His special surgical interest is the management of complex eye trauma.
His scientific achievements include several dozen papers, more than 60 oral presentations at international conferences, and teaching nearly 30 courses on the diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases around the world. He received the Prime Minister’s Award for a PhD thesis on a new method of photoreceptor imaging. Among the honours awarded to Dr. Sikorski, a two-time scholarship from the Lanckoronski Foundation holds a special place.
