On 29 January 2018, the President of the Republic of Poland conferred the title of professor of pharmaceutical sciences on prof. dr hab. Michał Marszałł, head of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy of NCU Collegium Medicum.
On 29 January 2018, the President of the Republic of Poland conferred the title of professor of pharmaceutical sciences on prof. dr hab. Michał Marszałł, head of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy of NCU Collegium Medicum.
Prof. Marszałł graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Medical University of Gdańsk. He completed a research internship at the Free University of Brussels and was awarded the degree of doctor of pharmaceutical sciences in 2006. In the same year, he won a competition organised by the U.S. Department of Health and completed a two-year research internship in a leading centre for drug research headed by prof. Irving W. Wainer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA.
His academic career has been connected with NCU Collegium Medicum since 2008, when he became an assistant professor at the Department of Biopharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy. In 2009, he was appointed the head of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the faculty.
In the years 2002-2018, prof. Marszałł was the head and/or co-researcher of numerous projects and grants in the scope of basic research as well as R&D, and actively participated in many scientific conferences. In 2015, he became postdoctoral fellow at the Cheng Lab of the Stanford University School of Medicine – a laboratory headed by dr Zhen Cheng, a pioneer in designing nanoparticles for medical applications.
His current research interests include:
- Improvement of instrumental analysis methods used in pharmaceutical analysis and bioanalysis – particularly chromatographic techniques with mass detection (UHPLC-MS/MS).
- Designing enzymatic systems for the synthesis of chiral compounds (drugs) using magnetic nanoparticles as catalyst carriers.
- Metabolomics in the context of diagnostics and understanding the changes occurring in the neoplastic process.
- Applications of advanced chemometric methods in biological and pharmaceutical analysis – including quantitative structure-retention relationships (QSSR).
The academic output of prof. Marszałł includes over 70 scientific publications with a total impact factor of 150 and over 1500 points awarded by the State Committee for Scientific Research/Ministry of Science and Higher Education.