Prof. Franciszek Burdan received PhD (1999) and habilitation degree (2004) from Medical University of Lublin, and professor degree from President of Poland in 2008. He is a radiologist and European Registered Toxicologist. Presently works as a professor of medicine at the Human Anatomy Department of Medical University of Lublin, senior assistant at the Radiology Department of St. John’s Cancer Center, and lecturer professor at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Author or coauthor of over 190 original and review peer-reviewed publications, case reports and scientific letters, as well as three anatomical books. Most of his output focuses on morphology as well as developmental and organ toxicity, especially cyclooxygenase inhibitors. He incorporated various radiological techniques into experimental teratology. He has been starting long-term scientific projects on epidemiology and medical imagining of neoplasms. Member of Editorial Boards of British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research, Folia Morphologica, Forensic Science & Criminology, Global Journal of Anthropology Research, International Journal of Orthopaedics, International Journal of Medical Imaging, Journal of Advances in Medical and Pharmaceutical Science, The Open Access Journal of Science and Technology, The Open Bioinformatics Journal. He was a mentor in ten completed PhD dissertations. His scientific achievement was honored by Polish Minster of Health, International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, Teratology Society, European Teratology Society, International Federation of Anatomical Societies, Polish Scientific Foundation, OIC Poland Foundation and Polish Toxicological Society.

developmental toxicology, reproductive toxicology, teratology, toxicology, embryology, congenital anomalies, congenital anomalies epidemiology, anatomical/developmental variations, magnetic resonance, computer tomography, ultrasonography, medical imagining, cancer imaging, cancer epidemiology, anatomy, radiology, genital tract imagining, gastrointestinal imagining, abdominal imagining