Beata NIEMCZYK-SOCZYŃSKA profile

In 2016, Beata Niemczyk-Soczynska graduated from the Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. Then, she undertook doctoral studies at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN). In 2024, Beata Niemczyk-Soczynska defended her PhD at the Laboratory of Polymers and Biomaterials at IPPT PAN. Beata Niemczyk-Soczyńska has been involved in several scientific research projects and international collaborations, including research and industrial scholarships. In 2019, she was involved in the project entitled "Innovative urine draining prosthesis for patients with urinary bladder cancer treated with minimally invasive urinary bladder oncological surgeries," funded by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR). This project resulted in obtaining a European patent no EP4570276. Simultaneously, Beata Niemczyk-Soczyńska was the head of the PRELUDIUM 15 project financed by the National Science Centre (NCN), entitled "Thermosensitive hydrogels filled with bioactive nanofibers for the regeneration of nervous tissue". In 2019, as part of the NAWA-Ithaca scholarship, Beata Niemczyk-Soczyńska completed a two-month internship abroad. The first took place at the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and the second internship abroad was held at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Both collaborations resulted in articles published in 2021, in the journal ACS BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, and in 2025 in the Materials Today Bio, respectively. In 2020, as part of a scholarship awarded by the Horizon 2020 IP-OSTEO Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange project, she completed a one-month internship at Ino Cure s.r.o. in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2025, Dr. Beata Niemczyk-Soczyńska received the Prime Minister's award for her outstanding doctoral dissertation. Presently, Beata Niemczyk-Soczyńska continues her work on hydrogel-based materials for tissue engineering applications at IPPT PAN, where she is employed as an assistant professor.

I specialize in polymers, with the emphasis on obtaining injectable thermosensitive polysaccharide hydrogels and short electrospun nanofibers for biomedical applications. Thermosensitive and injectable material systems consist of two natural polysaccharides, methylcellulose and agarose, with the addition of short poly-L-lactide (PLLA) nanofibers surface-functionalized with laminin. The proposed systems exhibit in-situ thermogelation properties, and their unique viscoelastic properties make them injectable. Methylcellulose physically cross-links upon heating near physiological temperature, while agarose accelerates methylcellulose cross-linking and improves the mechanical properties of the hydrogel system. To further provide a fibrous structure that mimics the extracellular matrix, injectability, and biochemical properties simultaneously, short bioactive electrospun nanofibers composed of PLLA and laminin were incorporated into the hydrogel system. Those systems were tested using L929 fibroblasts, mesenchymal stem cells (hBM-MSCs), and human glioma cells of LN-18 and WG-4 as potential scaffolds for central nervous system tissue engineering or a 3D glioma cell culturing model.

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