Who Is Who

Dubin Adam - Poland

Title: Member of the Board

Adam Dubin is professor of biochemistry and the vice-dean at the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology at the Jagiellonian University. Professor Dubin is an editorial board member of Acta Biochimica Polonica, presidium member of the Committee of Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, chairman of the interdisciplinary expert group for biotechnology at Polish Ministry of Science and High Education, presidium member of Polish Economy Chamber of Advanced Technology. He is an expert of enzymology and protein chemistry. The main research interest of professor Dublin's group focuses on structure-function relationship of enzymes and inhibitors, especially of bacterial origin, as well as the evaluation of antimicrobial peptides as possible broad-spectrum antibiotics. The characterization of staphostatin and hemocidin families is the group's significant discovery. Furthermore, Professor Dubin is the founder of a biotech company BioCentrum Ltd. Being an academic teacher and researcher and the member of the board of a BioCentrum Ltd. Professor Dubin is an example of the successful connection between science and business. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation(1980) and Visiting Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia, Athens (1986, 1990, and 1994).