Prof. Ryszard Tomasz Smolenski has been the head of the Department of Biochemistry at the Medical University of Gdańsk since 2016. He graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Medical University of Gdańsk in 1986. His doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hab. Julian Świerczyński, was defended in 1990. He received a habilitation degree in 2000 and the title of professor in 2016. In 1997-2009, he led the Heart Metabolism Research Group operating within the Heart Science Centre, Imperial College London, headed by Prof. Magdi H. Yacoub. He worked or did internships at research centers in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United States. His main research areas are the metabolism of nucleotides and cardiac energetics, studies of changes in these processes in pathology, and the development of new therapies. His spectrum of research work includes the development of new
analytical methods based on LC/MS, research using genetic human disease models,
clinical research on disease mechanisms, and the identification of new biomarkers.
