Education
Doctor Guzik graduated in Medicine from Jagiellonian University School of Medicine in Krakow, He continued his education in Oxford receiving a degree in molecular medicine from the University of Oxford where he studied under the guidance of Professor Keith M Channon.
Career
He received Doctor of Philosophy degree in Immunology and in 2004 became an Assistant Professor of Jagiellonian University. His scientific work concerns vascular biology and pharmacology of endothelium. His research focuses on the mechanisms of oxidative stress in human vasculature and on the search for novel antioxidants which could be clinically more useful than vitamins currently available.
Working in the Wellcome Trust in Oxford he found the possible relationships between genetic variation of human genome and free radical production and oxidative stress.
He described selected mechanisms of oxidative stress in human diabetes mellitus.
Membership
Member of the American Heart Association and scientific societies of Poland, United Kingdom and the United States of America.