Meet our speaker - Anna Kowalczuk

Anna Kowalczuk

Anna Kowalczuk

National Medicines Institute

Anna Kowalczuk

National Medicines Institute

BIO

Director of the National Medicines Institute

A graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Medical University of Warsaw, specializing in pharmaceutical analyst and pharmacognosy. She also completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw.
After graduation, she started working in a generally accessible pharmacy. However, her professional career was associated with the National Medicines Institute, where she has been working since 2008, for many years as a researcher at the Department of Medicines of Natural Origin. While working at NIL, she completed a one-year internship in the USA at the National Center for Natural Products Research and at the University of Mississippi, conducting research in phytochemistry, pharmacognosy and analytical chemistry.
In 2015, she became the Deputy Director for Control Research, thus exercising direct supervision over the research conducted by the OMCL. He is an expert in the European Pharmacopoeia Commission, a member of the EDQM Advisory Group CAP and EDQM Communication Working Group, he is also qualified as a GMP auditor.
Author of 13 scientific publications on medicinal plants, psychoactive plants and medicinal products of natural origin.
In April 2017, she was appointed by the Minister of Health to the position of the Director of the National Medicines Institute