Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Chemistry and Polymer Science, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. I design biomaterials from natural polysaccharides, above all advanced wound dressings.
Faculty of Chemistry
I am a chemist and assistant professor at the Department of Biomedical Chemistry and Polymer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. I work on biomaterials made from natural polysaccharides such as chitosan, levan and kefiran, which I enrich with active substances of natural origin.
My main goal is advanced, biocompatible wound dressings: from the treatment of chronic wounds to haemostatic materials for emergency and battlefield medicine.
I lead grants funded by the National Science Centre (NCN), including an international project with Charles University in the Czech Republic. I am a co-inventor of four patents, two of them European, and the author of 37 papers in JCR-listed journals. I serve as Secretary of the Polish Chitin Society.
Outside the lab, I am above all a mum of two little ones. In my free time I read, watch films and series, and whenever I can, I get on my bike or set off on a trip. And I never say no to sushi or a good steak.
I combine polymer chemistry with biology and medicine to turn natural raw materials into materials that genuinely help patients.
Porous sponges and films made of polysaccharides that stop bleeding, protect against infection and support healing, also in emergency and battlefield conditions.
Plant extracts, CBD, essential oils and enzymes built into biomaterials to give them antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
Nanoparticles and photoactive materials for photodynamic therapy, i.e. destroying bacteria and cancer cells with light.
I present my results at conferences around the world, and part of my work is carried out together with partners from Charles University in the Czech Republic.
Selected key papers and the full list of articles in JCR-listed journals. ★marks papers included in the habilitation series.
I am open to scientific and industrial collaboration in the field of biomaterials and wound dressing materials.
university:
Faculty of Chemistry, NCU
Gagarina 7, room 266
87-100 Toruń, Poland