MOLECURE S.A. OncoArendi Therapeutics S.A. announced the appointments of Dr. Adam Golebiowski, Dr. Zbigniew Zaslona and Agnieszka Rajczuk–Szczepanska to its Management Board. These appointments bring further scientific expertise as well as enhanced organizational and development capabilities to the Management Board. Dr. Adam Golebiowski, who is a co-founder of OncoArendi brings over 20 years of experience in leading research and development and drug discovery programs. In 1987 he completed his doctorate at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Wayne State University, Michigan, USA.
From 1989 to 2006, he led teams of medicinal chemists and research programs at Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals. From 2006 to 2012, he led research at the Institutes for Pharmaceutical Discovery (IPD) in Connecticut, USA. He is author of over 30 patents, 100 original publications, review articles and books.
Dr. Zbigniew Zaslona currently serves as Director of Biology at OncoArendi. He obtained his PhD in 2010 at the University of Giessen and the Marburg Lung Center in Germany, studying the mechanisms that modulate innate immunity in the context of pneumonia. He then undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan in the USA, where he focused on pharmacological studies of GPCR receptors, in particular lipid mediators of inflammation.
From 2015 to October 2020, he was a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) in the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, as well as a Senior Investigator at the UK biotechnology company Sitryx (which in March 2020 entered into a $1 billion collaboration and license agreementwith Eli Lilly), where he was responsible for anti-inflammatory drug development programs. Dr. Zaslona is a recognized international expert in the field of inflammatory processes and lung diseases and is repeatedly invited to lecture at leading international scientific conferences. Agnieszka Rajczuk-Szczepanska currently serves as the Human Resources (HR) Director at OncoArendi. She has over 25 years of experience in HR, including over 10 years in managerial positions.
As HR Director, she is responsible for recruitment, on-boarding, motivation, training and employee development, competence assessment and talent development management, work efficiency management and building employee engagement. She is a graduate of the University of Wroclaw in the field of psychology with a specialization in organization and management. She also completed post-graduate studies in human resources management and labor law at the Kozminski University in Warsaw.
She is a co-founder of the Polish HR Association in Poland.
