dr hab. Katarzyna Góralczyk

dr hab. Katarzyna Góralczyk

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Contact

Instytut Ekologii i Bioetyki UKSW
Wydział Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej
ul. Wóycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warszawa (budynek nr 23)
e- mail: k.goralczyk@uksw.edu.pl

Areas
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Specialist in the field of research in biomonitoring, risk estimation connected with the presence of environmental pollution.

Academic research conducted

  • Risk analysis for selected contamination with insecticides in human milk and food;
  • Biopersistent organochlorines in diet and human fertility. Epidemiologic studies of time to pregnancy and semen quality in Inuit and European populations;
  • An attempt at the assessment of dependencies between the size of tissue deposits of selected chloro-organic xenoestrogens and the incidence of breast cancer in women;
  • Evaluation of the influence of phthalic acid esters on the induction of potential developmental changes in he offsprings as the effects of toxic interactions of the compounds on male gonads;
  • The evaluation of pre-and postnatal human exposure to antropogenic organic compounds deriving from chlorine and and bromine;
  • Climate change, environmental contaminants and reproductive health;
  • Evaluation of the exposure of selected human population in Poland to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) collected with house dust.

Cooperation

Polish Society of Toxicology

Achievements

Patent application: Diagnostic test for BPA detection in biological material, its work method and application (one of three representatives of NIZP-PZH) (2017).

Offer for entrepreneurs

  • Research in the field of human exposure to environmental pollution, risk evaluation connected with the presence of the pollution;
  • Development and verification of analytic methods employed to indicate the remains of the pesticides in food, persistent organic pollutants in biological material from humans, their validation with the estimation of uncertainty.

Organizations

Polish Society of Toxicology - member