Professor at the Gdansk University of Technology. Over the years he has occupied a number of various positions at University of Technology, including Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biochemistry, deputy director and director of the Institute of Chemistry and Organic Technology and Food Technology which is made up of several Departments. Professor Borowski has shared his knowledge and experience with various research institutions and organisations in Poland, for example as a member of the Antibiotics Commission at Polish Academy of Science (PAN), a member of the Board for Industrial Microbiology of the Science and Technology Committee, member of the Academy of Industrial Microbiology at Polish Academy of Science (PAN), and Chairman of the Committee of Ministry of Chemical Industry responsible for the implementation of the 15-year development plan for the antibiotics industry.

Professor E. Borowski is an expert in the broadly defined discipline of antibiotics as an essential element of chemotherapy. His research focuses on the issue of development of the molecular basis for the rational design and modification of the active compounds, mainly for the control of eukaryotic systems, including antifungal and anticancer compounds. Implemented research program is multidisciplinary and involves isolation of natural compounds, structural studies, chemical modifications, a total synthesis. Professor E. Borowski position in the world of science was demonstrated e.g. by the initiation of international symposia "Molecular Aspects of Chemotherapy”. Their 8 editions were held under his direction in Gdansk in years 1984-2001, under the auspices of the International Society of Chemotherapy and the Committee on Drug Research of the Polish Academy of Science (PAN).

Professor at the Gdansk University of Technology, Head of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Chemistry. In the course of his career, he has shared his knowledge and experience with a number of institutions and scientific organizations in Poland. This includes being a member of the Committee on Microbiology at the Polish Academy of Science (PAN), a member of the Biotechnology Committee at the Polish Academy of Science (PAN), member of the Interdisciplinary Team for the Development of Bio-Economy in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, a member of the Polish Platform of Biotechnology, member and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Marine and Tropical Medicine in Gdynia, a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Medical Biology at the Polish Academy of Science (PAN) in Lodz, President of the Gdansk branch of the Polish Society of Microbiologists.

Professor Kur specialises in molecular biology and biotechnology. His research is related to the construction and application of molecular diagnostic methods in microbiology, molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of infectious agents, production and use of proteins of extremophile organisms in industrial and medical biotechnology, the formulaion of new generation immunodiagnostic tests and vaccines. His scientific output includes over 150 original papers and reviews, and about 200 reports and conference papers. The core of his achievements can be found in original publications in prestigious, scientific journals. Prof. Kur works closely with institutions around the world, the bulk of which is in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin (USA) and University of Texas (USA). He has sponsored a total of 30 PhDs. His position in the world of science has been demonstrated among other activities, by the organisation of a series of scientific conferences as part of the nationwide BioMillenium project, entitled "Molecular Biotechnology". Three of these conferences took place under his supervision in Gdansk between 2001-2009.

Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology and a professor at the Research Center Borstel, Department of Medical and Biochemical Microbiology, Leibniz Center for Medicine, Borstel (Germany). He has worked in many world-renowned research centres around the world including the University of Western Ontario (Canada), Max-Planck Institute (Germany), Yamaguchi University (Japan), Department of Biochemie Medical University of Geneva (Switzerland), Department of Cellular, Viral and Molecular Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA).

Professor S. Raina scientific specialization is molecular biology. His research is related to: catalysis of protein folding in the periplasmic space in Gram-negative bacteria; regulation of stress signal transduction through the cell wall of bacteria; folding and insertion of outer membrane proteins and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis and its translocation; regulation of responses to heat shock and the RpoE and RpoH in E. Coli; identification of key disulphide bond forming catalysts; peptidyl-prolyl isomerase and control mechanism of RpoE via an anti-sigma factor RseA. His scientific output includes about 100 original papers and reviews. The core of his achievements are his original publications in reputable scientific journals with the number of citations exceeding 4500.

Professor of oncology at the University of Wisconsin (USA). He is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Science (PAN), honorary member of the Italian Society of Experimental Biology and Polish Society of Microbiology. Awarded honoris causa PhDs at the Gdansk University of Technology, University of Gdansk, UMCS in Lublin and Medical University of Gdansk, winner of the Hilldale Medal at the University of Wisconsin and the Gregor Mendel Gold Medal, awarded by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He founded and for many years was a chief editor of the journal GENE, and is on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals.

Prof. Szybalski is a world authority in the field of molecular biology, genetics and microbiology. He designed numerous original research methods, some of them making DNA transfer into human cells possible as well as the development of monoclonal antibody technology. He was the first to formulate the multidrug antibiotic therapy concept. He is an active participant in the global human genome project. During the period of Soviet dominance, he supported the scientific community in Poland and other Eastern European countries. His scientific output includes over 330 publications in the field of microbiology, general genetics, mutagenesis, and molecular biology. Professor Szybalski’s work has contributed significantly to the development of biomedical sciences. It is, without any doubt, an outstanding academic career pioneering and introducing new techniques of molecular biology. Prof. Waclaw Szybalski is also unusual due to the huge contribution he has made in many areas. He is not a man of one object or one prize. His scientific work, the output of which shows no sign of diminishing is full of authentic, scientific discoveries that have influenced, and continue to influence, the development of science. Professor Szybalski has trained many scientists from Gdansk in his own laboratory. His personal commitment has contributed to the development of molecular biology and biotechnology in Gdansk.

Professor active at the University of Gdansk. In the course of his career there, he has occupied a number of various positions, including the Head of the Department of Molecular Biology, Vice Chancellor of Science at the University of Gdansk. He is a member-correspondent of the Polish Academy of Science (PAN), member of the Committee of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Biotechnology Committee at the Polish Academy of Science (PAN). He has sponsored a total of 31 PhDs. His scientific output includes over 250 original papers and reviews with the number of citations of over 2500 with a Hirsch Index of 21.

His areas of academic interest in the scope of genetics and molecular biotechnology are as follows: the use of bacteriophage and plasmid systems for expression of recombinant genes, new methods for detection of pathogenic bacteria and viruses, and the development of new therapies for inherited metabolic diseases; new microbial systems for the determination of mutagenic environmental pollutants.

Professor at the Medical University of Gdansk.

His research interests revolve around issues related to the mechanisms of free radical reactions in the pathogenesis of disease. Current research projects are related to the synthesis and physico-chemical characteristics of potential molecular biosensors of the reactive forms of nitrogen in the evaluation of oxidative stress in macrophages; the correlation of the level of oxidation of subfractions of plasma proteins with the severity of inflammation in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis; prooxidative effect of peracetic acid in the signaling paths associated with the induction of acute pancreatitis, the role of hydrogen peroxide and peracids in the regulation of enzymatic activity of protein tyrosine phosphatase CD45.