Irena Maria Nalepa (; born 24 November 1951) is a Polish

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pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemica ...

and

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, professor of medical sciences and professor at the Institute of Pharmacology of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...

. She graduated from the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

and received her PhD in 1980. Since 2004 she has the title of full professor. Currently she is a professor, Head of Department of Brain Biochemistry and vice-chairman of the Institute of Pharmacology of Polish Academy of Sciences, a chairwoman of Scientific Council of popular-science magazine ''

Wszechświat ''Wszechświat'' ("The Universe") is a Polish popular-science magazine, currently issued as quarterly by Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists, supported by AGH University of Science and Technology and Polish Academy of Learning. History ''Ws ...

'' and member of Neuroscience Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences.

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