Krzysztof Jóźwiak
Professor Krzysztof Jóźwiak, Director of the National Science Centre
Biography
Krzysztof Jóźwiak is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Lublin. He conducts research in molecular pharmacology and drug chemistry of substances acting on membrane receptors with potential applications in the treatment of neurodegenerative and civilization diseases. Co-author of over 100 publications, two international patents, and over a dozen plenary papers presented at international conferences. Editor and co-author of the monograph Drug Stereochemistry: Analytical Methods and Pharmacology (2013). Manager of NSC/MSC research grants, winner of FNP Focus and FNP Team programs, participant in a consortium carrying out a project commissioned by the National Institutes of Health, USA.
He has held two postdoctoral fellowships, the first at the National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, USA (2001-2004), the second at the Biomodeling Laboratory of the International Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Warsaw, Poland (2005-2007). Visiting professor at Università di Bologna, Italy (2023). Winner of team and individual scientific awards from the Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland. In 2012, he was awarded the UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry by the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry Societies.
From 2012 to 2020, he was a member of the Council of the National Science Center, where he served, among other things, as chairman of the Life Sciences Committee. As of October 2023, the Director of the National Science Center.