NATBIOMED

Full name:

Natural and Organic Compounds for Medical Use

Appointment of the team:

2025

The NATBIOMED research group’s focus is the creation and development of more natural, organic, and sustainable products, both for personal and medical use.

The project aims to use the natural resources of animal, plant, and microbial origins. Using modern technologies, the research team will investigate how these raw materials can be used in the biomedical, cosmetics, as well as packaging industries.

Additionally, the researchers will analyse how biodiversity affects the health of humans, animals and plants. The project is based in the idea of biomimetics – the art of mimicking nature and its elements to solve humanity’s problems, such as sustainability.

Team Leader

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Alina Sionkowska

Bio:

Alina Sionkowska is a Full Professor at NCU. Currently, Prof. Sionkowska is the Head of the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Cosmetics of NCU’s Faculty of Chemistry. Her research interests include: photodegradation of collagen, polymeric biomaterials, biopolymer/ceramic composites, scaffolds for medical applications, cosmetic raw materials, controlled release of drug and cosmetic ingredients from polymeric matrices, surface modification of polymers, biopolymers and their blends, and raw materials from nature. Prof. Sionkowska is the author and co-author of over 240 publications (as of June 2026), and is listed annually on the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” lists compiled by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier. She is the Vice President of the Polish Society for Biomaterials.

She led 22 projects and was the organizer of 4 International Conferences on Chemistry for Beauty and Health (2018, 2021, 2024, 2026) and 7 national biomaterials symposia.

Meet the research team

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Arkadiusz Jawień

Portrait of Katarzyna Lewandowska

Katarzyna Lewandowska

Portrait of Aleksandra Radtke

Aleksandra Radtke

Portrait of Katarzyna Liczmańska-Kopcewicz

Katarzyna Liczmańska-Kopcewicz

Portrait of Łukasz Pałkowski

Łukasz Pałkowski

Portrait of Daniela Szymańska

Daniela Szymańska

Portrait of Paulina Mościcka

Paulina Mościcka

Portrait of Aleksandra Florkiewicz

Aleksandra Florkiewicz

Portrait of Tadeusz Tadrowski

Tadeusz Tadrowski

Portrait of Karol Dobrzeniecki

Karol Dobrzeniecki

Portrait of Maciej Przybyłek

Maciej Przybyłek

Portrait of Tomasz Jędrzejewski

Tomasz Jędrzejewski

Portrait of Adrian Topolski

Adrian Topolski