MSc Marcelina Malinowska

Scientific interests:

• Human lisosomal storage disorders - mucopolysaccharidoses
  
• Gene targeted isoflavon therapy in mucopolysaccharidoses
  
• Scanning electron microscopy of hair shafts
  

Publications:

• Węgrzyn G., Jakóbkiewicz-Banecka J., Gabig-Cimińska M., Piotrowska E., Narajczyk M., Kloska A., Malinowska M., Dziedzic D., Gołębiewska I., Moskot M., Węgrzyn A. (2010) Genistein: a natural isoflavone with a potential for treatment of genetic diseases. Biochemical Society Transactions, in press.
  
• Malinowska M., Wilkinson F.L., Bennett W., Langford-Smith K.J., O’Leary H.A., Jakóbkiewicz-Banecka J., Wynn R., J. Wraith E., Węgrzyn G., Bigger B.W. (2009) Genistein reduces lysosomal storage in peripheral tissues of Mucopolysaccharide IIIB mice. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 98, 235-242.
  
• Piotrowska E., Jakóbkiewicz-Banecka J., Tylki-Szymańska A., Liberek A., Maryniak A., Malinowska M., Czartoryska B., Puk E., Kloska A., Liberek T., Barańska S.,Węgrzyn A., Węgrzyn G. (2008) Genistin-rich isoflavone extract in substrate reduction therapy for Sanfilippo syndrome: an open-label, pilot study in 10 pediatric patients. Current Therapeutic Research Clinical and Experimental, 69, 166-179.
  
• Malinowska M., Jakóbkiewicz-Banecka J., Kloska A., Tylki-Szymańska A., Czartoryska B., Piotrowska E., Węgrzyn A., Węgrzyn G. (2008) Abnormalities in the hair morphology of patients with some but not all types of mucopolysaccharidoses. European Journal of Pediatrics, 167, 203-209.