Maria Walczak
Jagiellonian University, Poland
Biography
Maria Walczak has graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy Medical Academy in Krakow. She has obtained PhD degree from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Jagiellonian University Medical College (UJ CM), Krakow in 2001 and habilitation thesis in Pharmacokinetics in 2014. Since 2001 she worked at the Department of Pharmacokinetics and Physical Pharmacy UJ CM as a Lecturer, since 2010 at the Jagiellonian Centre for Experimental Therapeutics (JCET) as a Manager of the Laboratory of Analytics and Pharmacokinetics, and since 2015 as a head of Chair and Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy UJ CM. Her scientific work refers to pharmacokinetic and toxicokinetic profiling, metabolite screening, assessment of protein binding of bioactive compounds and pharmacology of endothelium. She is keen in bioanalysis of novel compounds and biomarkers related to cancer metastasis using LC/MS/MS and CE techniques. She is a specialist in clinical pharmacy issues.
Abstract
Abstract : The role of endothelial biomarkers in breast cancer metastasis