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Born in 1968 in Tarnow, Poland. Medical study at the Silesian Medical Academy, 1987-1993. Doctor of medical sciences (1995), specialist dermatologist (1999), specialist allergist (2010). Habilitation (state-certified permanent qualification for professor posts) in 2003. Professor and Head of the Department of Experimental Dermatology and Cosmetology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Co-founder and scientific director of the Institute of Dermatology in Krakow and the biomedical research laboratory Celimun, Krakow. Research interests: diagnosis in vivo and in vitro of allergy, skin allergy, adverse drug reactions.
Author or co-author of more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and 30 scientific monographs and textbooks. Co-founder and co-editor of the "Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine", member of the scientific advisory board of the journal "Allergologie", the "Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology", "The Open Allergy Journal", "Alergoprofil", "ISRN Public Health", and "International Review of Allergology & Clinical Immunology".
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Polish Allergists' Portal "alergologia.org" and scientific journal "Estetologia Medyczna i Kosmetologia" (Medical Esthetology and Cosmetology). Member of the Local Organizing Committee at the XXVIII Congress of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (Warsaw, 6-10 June 2009) and of the Scientific Committee at the 10th Congress of the European Society of Contact Dermatitis (Strasbourg, 15-18 September 2010), and 11th Congress of the European Society of Contact Dermatitis (Malmö, 13-16 June 2012). Dermatology and allergology rater for the McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE), PIER, bmjupdates+, and the Evidence-Based Journals.
Co-ordinator and/or participant in 10 research programmes: stategic governmental programmes, national grants, institutional grants, research fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Office (DAAD), Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (European Commission's 5th Framework Programme) and Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant (6th Framework Programme). Training abroad: Bochum (Germany), Harpenden (England), Zurich (Switzerland), Aachen (Germany), Kuopio (Finland), Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
International awards: Howard I. Maibach Award (American Society of Contact Dermatitis, 2003), EAACI Exchange Research Fellowship Award (European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, 2001), Albert M. Kligman Fellowship (Society for Investigative Dermatology, 2001).
National awards: President's Award of the Polish Farmers' Insurance Institution (2003), Team Award of the Institute of Agricultural Medicine, Lublin (1999), Prof. Mieczyslaw Obtulowicz Honorary Diploma (Polish Allergology Society, 1997), Fellowship of the Polish Science Foundation (1996), Silver Medal "Primus Inter Pares" (1991), Rector's Awards (Silesian Medical Academy, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991).