Dr. Habil. Ewelina Król, Prof. UG

Ewelina Król is a graduate of biotechnology from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG&MUG. After her studies, she pursued doctoral studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry (2004-2011). Towards the end of her doctoral studies in 2009, she was employed as a senior technical assistant at the Department of Recombinant Vaccines at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG&MUG, where she continues to work to this day. In 2011, she obtained her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences with a focus on Biochemistry, based on her dissertation titled Application of Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV) as a Model to Study the Activity of New Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Development (supervisor: Prof. Bogusław Szewczyk). Since 2012, she has been employed as an assistant professor at the University of Gdańsk. In 2012, she completed a short-term internship at Stanford University in Silicon Valley, USA, and in 2016, an internship at the Department of Virology, Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic. In 2020, she obtained her habilitation degree in natural and exact sciences in the field of biological sciences, based on her scientific achievement entitled Development of Innovative Strategies to Combat Human Viral Infections Using Chemically Synthesized Inhibitors. The same year, she was appointed as an associate professor at the University of Gdańsk.

Since 2016, she has been a member of the University of Gdańsk Senate and, since 2019, of the Council of the Discipline of Biological Sciences at UG. During the 2020-2024 term, she served as the Dean of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG&MUG. In 2023, she was appointed head of the Department of Recombinant Vaccines at the MWB UG&MUG.

Her research focuses on developing effective, innovative next-generation recombinant antiviral vaccines based on virus-like particles and/or mRNA, as well as exploring innovative therapeutic options based on chemically synthesized inhibitors of protein glycosylation. Viruses from the Flaviviridae family (Hepatitis C virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, Zika virus), and coronaviruses (SARS-CoV-2, NL63, MHV) constitute the core of her scientific interests.

For the past several years, she has actively sought external funding to support her scientific research. She has led several national scientific projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (twice under the Iuventus Plus program), the National Science Centre (Preludium, Sonata, Fast Track COVID-19, Opus), and the National Centre for Research and Development (Leader). Currently, she is involved in an international project funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe program, where she serves as the project leaderat the University of Gdańsk. She has also been the chief investigator in several national and international projects. A popularizer of science, she has conducted numerous lectures and workshops.

She is the author of four Polish patents and several Polish and international patent applications. She has published her scientific work in renowned journals, including Trends in Biotechnology, Antiviral Research, Journal of Virology, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, and Microbiology Spectrum. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gdańsk Scientific Society and the Mayor of Gdańsk Award for outstanding achievements of young scientists, individual and team awards from the Rector of the University of Gdańsk for scientific and organisational achievements, and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s TOP500 Innovators Science-Management-Commercialization competition, through which she completed an internship at Stanford University in the United States. She is also a laureate of the prestigious L’Oreal UNESCO For Women in Science scholarship in the habilitation thesis category.

Dr. Habil. Ewelina Król, Prof. UG

Dean at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG & MUG

(+48) 58 523 63 20

dziekanat@biotech.ug.edu.pl

Prof. Dr. Habil. Przemysław Rutkowski

Academic teacher, physician, specialist in internal diseases, nephrology and clinical transplantology, professor of medical sciences. From 2016 to 2020 he served as vice-dean for student and social affairs of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Medical University of Gdańsk. During the 2020–2024 term, he was the dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical Academy in Gdańsk in 1994. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 based on his dissertation entitled The impact of nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism on the development and progression of chronic renal failure, supervised by Prof. Władysław Grzeszczak. He obtained his habilitation degree in 2009 based on his scientific achievements and the dissertation entitled Nicotinamide derivatives – a new family of uremic toxins. He chose his specialisation in internal medicine, nephrology, and clinical transplantology. In 2019, he was awarded the title of professor of medical sciences.

Throughout his professional life, he has been associated with his alma mater – initially as an assistant, and since 2000, as an assistant professor at the Clinic of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases. Since 2013, he has been an assistant professor at the Department of General Nursing. In 2016, he was appointed as an associate professor. In 2005, he completed a one-year research internship at the Department of Toxicology at the University of Würzburg under the Nephrocore scholarship programme. Since 2009, he has been a member of nephrology examination boards.

He has supervised five completed doctoral dissertations and mentored specializations in internal medicine and nephrology. From 2016 to 2019, he was the president of the Gdańsk-Pomeranian Branch of the Polish Society of Nephrology. He then served two terms on the Audit Committee of the Main Board and is currently a member of the Main Board of the PTN. He is the author and co-author of over 270 publications with an Impact Factor (IF) of approximately 160 and 2,695 KBN/MNiSW points. His main scientific and clinical interests include chronic kidney disease, glomerular kidney diseases, dialysis therapy, kidney transplantation, and arterial hypertension.

Prof. Dr. Habil. Przemysław Rutkowski

Dean at the Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine

(+48) 58 349 12 49

dziekan.zdrowie@gumed.edu.pl

Dr. Habil. Maria Bieniaszewska, Assoc. Prof.

Maria Bieniaszewska is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Gdańsk, a physician specialising in internal medicine, haematology, and clinical transplantation. She co-founded the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation centre in Gdańsk and serves as the coordinator of the transplantation programme at the Department of Haematology and Transplantology and the head of the Tissue and Cell Bank.

From 2020 to 2024, she served as vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine. She represented the Conference of Rectors of Academic Medical Schools (KRAUM) in the ministerial team which developed the revised standards for medical education, published in the 2023 ordinance of the Minister of National Education. She introduced the first standardised exam (OSCE) in internal medicine at the University, which is the subject she continues to teach in 2023.

Her primary clinical and research interests focus on transplantation and cellular therapies, particularly the challenges of post-transplant chimerism and its role in post-transplant care, as well as the broader field of chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms. She has participated in international research projects, introducing new preparatory procedures in transplantation. She was also a co-investigator in several grants, including the multi-centre HEMOGRAFT project under Prevention and Treatment of Civilizational Diseases – STRATEGMED programme. Since 2018, she has led the myeloproliferative neoplasms section of the Polish Adult Leukemia Group (PALG). She has co-authored standards, textbook chapters in haematology, and numerous publications and has supervised three doctoral theses.

From 2003 to 2011, she served as Secretary and later General Secretary of the Polish Society of Haematologists and Transfusionists. She is a member of the European Haematology Association (EHA) and the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT). Throughout her professional career, she completed clinical and research fellowships at the Haematology Clinic of the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, and the Clinic for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

She has been awarded the Gold Cross of Merit (2013) and the Medal of the Commission of National Education (2019). In 2024, the community of the University Clinical Centre named her the Transplantologist of the Year.

Dr. Habil. Maria Bieniaszewska, Assoc. Prof.

Dean at the Faculty of Medicine

(+48) 58 349 10 06

dziekan.lekarski@gumed.edu.pl