Born in Bochnia, Poland. High School: Liceum Jana Matejki in Wieliczka, Poland. A medical graduate of College of Medicine Jagiellonski University in Krakow, Poland. PhD in pharmacology from College of Medicine Jagiellonski University. A highly-cited pharmacologist (listed in www.isihighlycited.com, 14,560 citations to date by Google Scholar) who worked both in academia and pharmaceutical industry in Poland (Jagiellonski University in Krakow and Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw), UK (Wellcome Research Laboratories in Beckenham), Spain (Lacer SA in Barcelona), Canada (University of Alberta in Edmonton) and USA (University of Texas in Houston. He joined School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Trinity College Dublin in 2006 as Professor and Chair of Pharmacology. He has served as Director of Research in School of Pharmacy and as Head of School and ProDean Faculty of Health Sciences Trinity College Dublin. He contributed to undergraduate teaching of medical,dentistry, nursing and pharmacy students in Europe, Canada and USA. He mentored many MSc, PhD students, as well as post-doctoral researchers. When at Trinity he graduated four PhD students and presently is supervising three PhD students. His current research interests focus on nanopharmacology, nanotoxicology, development of nanocarriers, biology of nitric oxide, reactive oxygen molecules and protein-degrading enzymes.
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