Marian Szczepanik

Marian Marek Szczepanik is an immunologist and medical biologist who co-authored more than 150 scientific research papers in peer-reviewed journals, Head of the Department of Medical Biology at the Institute of Nursing and Midwifery at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Jagiellonian University Medical College.

He obtained doctorate in 1994 upon dissertation Funkcja immunoregulacyjna limfocytów gd w reakcji nadwrażliwości kontaktowej u myszy supervised by Włodzimierz Ptak. In 1999 he obtained habilitation.

With Włodzimierz Ptak and Maria Ptak he co-authored Podstawy immunologii, a textbook for students of medicine. Subsequent editions were published in 1987, 1999, 2009, 2017 and 2021. He supervised seven doctoral dissertations.