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The Team

Dr Arkadiusz Bonna

co-founder and CTO


Arkadiusz (Arek) was born in Gdańsk, the birthplace of Johann Hevelius, Daniel Fahrenheit, Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Abegg, and Alfred Stock.

Arkadiusz is a graduate of "Gdańska Szkoła Peptydów" (The Gdańsk' Peptide School) - an informal name for the groups from the Gdańsk University of Technology and the University of Gdańsk, that specialise in peptide chemistry and were a national-leading centre in this field for years.
History of Gdansk Peptide School by Professor Zbigniew Grzonka.

Arkadiusz obtained his MSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Gdansk in 1999 and 2009, both under the supervision of Professor Zbigniew Maćkiewicz.

He completed his postdoctoral studies in Inorganic Biochemistry in the world-leading group of Professor Wojciech Bal at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBB PAS) in Warsaw, having a four-year stipend from the Foundation for Polish Science. He served as a Lecturer, Supervisor, Assistant Professor and Head of the Peptide Synthesis Laboratory.

Next, in 2015, he decided to focus on what was, for him, a new topic: collagen peptides. He joined the world-leading group of Professor Richard Farndale from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge as a Senior Research Associate /Research Assistant Professor/. The British Heart Foundation /BHF/ funded that position and the project.

At the end of 2018, Arek started work for the collagen-based medical device industry and supported technology transfer from laboratory to industrial scale, optimising production processes, quality control, implementation and maintenance of the quality management system for medical devices. His team successfully implemented and maintained ISO 13485 for medical devices for production of class III medical device with certification from BSI.

He has held further positions in recent years: Lead Peptide Chemist, Head of the Research Labs, and Director of Research and Development. Additionally, he is a qualified, certified and active Auditor of ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 for medical devices.

Arek focuses on applying collagen-related peptides and collagen ligands collection in basic scientific research and medicine, especially in medical device development, drug development, treating diseases, and early disease detection.

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