diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5cb075ca..9f46a5ff 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: gDRutils
 Type: Package
 Title: A package with helper functions for processing drug response data
-Version: 1.11.1
-Date: 2026-04-29
+Version: 1.11.2
+Date: 2026-05-05
 Authors@R: c(person("Bartosz", "Czech", role=c("aut"),
                    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9908-3007")),
              person("Arkadiusz", "Gladki", role=c("cre", "aut"), email="gladki.arkadiusz@gmail.com",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 70c87343..33540073 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## gDRutils 1.11.2 - 2026-05-05
+* update author email address
+
 ## gDRutils 1.11.1 - 2026-04-29
 * synchronize Bioconductor and GitHub versioning
 
diff --git a/R/convert_mae_se_assay_to_dt.R b/R/convert_mae_se_assay_to_dt.R
index a294ec7e..80a5330c 100644
--- a/R/convert_mae_se_assay_to_dt.R
+++ b/R/convert_mae_se_assay_to_dt.R
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ convert_se_assay_to_dt <- function(se,
 #' \code{get_additional_variables} into the \code{DrugName} column. Defaults to \code{FALSE}.
 #' @keywords convert
 #'
-#' @author Bartosz Czech <bartosz.czech@@contractors.roche.com>
+#' @author Bartosz Czech <czech.bartosz@@external.gene.com>
 #'
 #' @return data.table representation of the data in \code{assay_name}.
 #'
diff --git a/R/experiment_validators.R b/R/experiment_validators.R
index ba83be94..08193325 100644
--- a/R/experiment_validators.R
+++ b/R/experiment_validators.R
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ validate_SE <- function(se,
 #' mae <- get_synthetic_data("finalMAE_small.qs2") 
 #' validate_MAE(mae)
 #' 
-#' @author Bartosz Czech <bartosz.czech@@contractors.roche.com>
+#' @author Bartosz Czech <czech.bartosz@@external.gene.com>
 validate_MAE <- function(mae) {
   # Validate the SE structure, assays and metadata, as well as dimnames of assays
   checkmate::assert_class(mae, "MultiAssayExperiment")
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 1720705a..b39cd8e7 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ assert_choices <- function(x, choices, ...) {
 #' @keywords package_utils
 #' @export
 #'
-#' @author Bartosz Czech <bartosz.czech@@contractors.roche.com>
+#' @author Bartosz Czech <czech.bartosz@@external.gene.com>
 #' 
 #' @return list or vector depends on unify param
 #' 
diff --git a/man/MAEpply.Rd b/man/MAEpply.Rd
index b2253e5d..b1e3c343 100644
--- a/man/MAEpply.Rd
+++ b/man/MAEpply.Rd
@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@ MAEpply(mae, SummarizedExperiment::assayNames)
 
 }
 \author{
-Bartosz Czech \href{mailto:bartosz.czech@contractors.roche.com}{bartosz.czech@contractors.roche.com}
+Bartosz Czech \href{mailto:czech.bartosz@external.gene.com}{czech.bartosz@external.gene.com}
 }
 \keyword{package_utils}
diff --git a/man/convert_mae_assay_to_dt.Rd b/man/convert_mae_assay_to_dt.Rd
index 9d9bbe67..3a021cb9 100644
--- a/man/convert_mae_assay_to_dt.Rd
+++ b/man/convert_mae_assay_to_dt.Rd
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@ convert_mae_assay_to_dt(mae, "Metrics")
 flatten convert_se_assay_to_dt
 }
 \author{
-Bartosz Czech \href{mailto:bartosz.czech@contractors.roche.com}{bartosz.czech@contractors.roche.com}
+Bartosz Czech \href{mailto:czech.bartosz@external.gene.com}{czech.bartosz@external.gene.com}
 }
 \keyword{convert}
diff --git a/man/validate_MAE.Rd b/man/validate_MAE.Rd
index 0bcd1df5..83b05e5f 100644
--- a/man/validate_MAE.Rd
+++ b/man/validate_MAE.Rd
@@ -30,6 +30,6 @@ validate_MAE(mae)
 
 }
 \author{
-Bartosz Czech \href{mailto:bartosz.czech@contractors.roche.com}{bartosz.czech@contractors.roche.com}
+Bartosz Czech \href{mailto:czech.bartosz@external.gene.com}{czech.bartosz@external.gene.com}
 }
 \keyword{experiment}