Marcin Szczot

Associate Professor

In my research I currently plan to map the unexplored system of hundreds of millions of nerve cells in the human gastrointestinal tract. The aim of the research is to understand better how stomach pain arises.

Publications

2026

Jie Su, Ming-Dong Zhang, Jussi Kupari, Dongoh Kwak, Laurence Picton, Bingze Xu, Leandro Flores Do Nascimento, Yizhou Hu, Alejandro Gonzalez, Dmitry Usoskin, Zhongwei Xu, Marcin Szczot, Abdeljabbar El Manira, Rikard Holmdahl, Patrik Ernfors (2026)

Persistent interferon signaling causes sensory neuron plasticity and pain before and during arthritis Nature Neuroscience (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02234-y

2025

Chwen-Yu Chen, Lech Kaczmarczyk, Felipe Meira de Faria, Marcin Szczot, Walker Jackson, Max Larsson (2025)

Genetic targeting of myelinated primary afferent neurons using a new Nefh^CreERT2 knock-in mouse Scientific Reports, Vol. 15, Article 10890 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95874-2

2022

Katrin Schrenk-Siemens, Jörg Pohle, Charlotte Rostock, Muad Abd El Hay, Ruby M. Lam, Marcin Szczot, Shiying Lu, Alexander T. Chesler, Jan Siemens (2022)

Human Stem Cell-Derived TRPV1-Positive Sensory Neurons: A New Tool to Study Mechanisms of Sensitization Cells, Vol. 11, Article 2905 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11182905

2021

Marcin Szczot, Alec R. Nickolls, Ruby M. Lam, Alexander T. Chesler (2021)

The Form and Function of PIEZO2 Annual Review of Biochemistry, Vol. 90, p. 507-534 (Article, review/survey)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biochem-081720-023244

Research

The Szczot Lab

External stimuli in concert with internal state guide behaviors, moods and choices. Deciphering how sensory representation is altered by injury, might have major implications for the treatment of somatosensory dysfunctions like chronic pain.

News

Teaser image for the Szczot lab at CSAN.

Understanding the gastrointestinal nervous system

We have all suffered from stomach ache or bowel discomfort. These feelings are regulated by signals between neurons in the gastrointestinal tract. Marcin Szczot wants to learn more about this part of the nervous system.

Three LiU researchers appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows

Emil Björnson, Magnus Jonsson and Marcin Szczot, have been appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Five-year research grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation makes it possible for young researchers to make breakthroughs.

Organisation

A researcher is looking at encased samples in a lab.

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN) integrates knowledge and methodology from different areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.