Laboratory for Research in Human Milk and Lactation

Medical University of Warsaw

Laboratory for Research in Human Milk and Lactation

Medical University of Warsaw

mgr Mariusz Radkiewicz

E-mail: m.radkiewicz@ibb.waw.pl

Orcid: 0000-0002-8659-6516

Education

Master’s degree in Biotechnology from the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw (specialization: Molecular Biology)

Employment

Employee at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IBB PAS) since 2016, currently holding the position of Research Equipment Specialist. PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Aleksandra Wesołowska (Medical University of Warsaw) and Prof. Michał Dadlez (IBB PAS).

Research Interests

Research on the detection of new potential biomarkers and the development of novel analytical methods for evaluating the biochemical composition of human milk. Development of new metabolomic and lipidomic applications in analyses utilizing liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.

Scholarships, Awards, Professional Memberships, and Academic Activities

Research internship at the La Fe Health Research Institute (Valencia, Spain) funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA, European Social Fund 2021–2027 (FERS)) – project focus: isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles from human milk.

Oral presentation of research findings on the human milk lipidome at the 19th International Euro Fed Lipid Congress (Poznań, 2023).

Oral presentation of research findings on human milk nutritional composition, titled "Human milk as an infant Super Food", during the session Laboratory Diagnostics is a Woman at the 60th Conference of the Polish Society for Laboratory Diagnostics (PTDL) (Kraków, 2024).

Publications

  1. Radkiewicz, M., Bzikowska-Jura, A., Molas, A., Bertino, E., Gandino, S., Van Den Akker, C. H. P., Drazkowska, I., Gawel, P., Gawronska, M., Van Goudoever, J. B., Królak-Olejnik, B., Sinkiewicz-Darol, E., Sottemano, S., Tonetto, P., & Wesolowska, A. (2026). Longitudinal assessment of vitamin concentrations in donor human milk. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 154, 109210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2026.109210
  2. Onysk, A., Steczkiewicz, K., Radkiewicz, M., Link-Lenczowski, P., Surowiecki, P., Sztompka, K., Grabińska, K. A., Nowak, J. K., & Surmacz, L. (2026). Evolutionary divergence and functional insights into the heteromeric cis-prenyltransferase of Paramecium tetraurelia. The FEBS journal, 293(6), 1681–1707. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.70237
  3. Unrug-Bielawska, K., Sandowska-Markiewicz, Z., Pyśniak, K., Piątkowska, M., Czarnowski, P., Goryca, K., Mróz, A., Żeber-Lubecka, N., Wójcik-Trechcińska, U., Bałabas, A., Dąbrowska, M., Surynt, P., Radkiewicz, M., Mikula, M., & Ostrowski, J. (2025). Western Diet and fecal microbiota transplantation alter phenotypic, liver fatty acids, and gut metagenomics and metabolomics in Mtarc2 knockout mice. Genes & nutrition, 20(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12263-025-00772-x
  4. Wojtyła, C., Kupcewicz, B., Tołwiński, I., Samborowska, E., Radkiewicz, M., Jaźwiec, R., Sakowicz, A., Rubel, T., Goszczynska, A., Winogradska, B., & Laudański, P. (2025). Metabolome analysis as a potential source of endometriosis biomarkers with the use of multiomics approach in its diagnosis. Scientific reports, 15(1), 38682. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-22598-8
  5. Nalepa, M., Basheer, O., Radkiewicz, M., Skowrońska, K., Skweres, A., Owczarek, A., Dalka, A., Hilgier, W., Zielińska, M., Samborowska, E., & Węgrzynowicz, M. (2026). Loss of arginase 2 disrupts striatum-specific polyamine homeostasis. The FEBS journal, 293(4), 1212–1237. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.70313
  6. Kołodziejska, K., Szczepańska, A., Vadlamani, S., Ponath Sukumaran, R., Radkiewicz, M., Bringmann, H., Pujol, N., Pokrzywa, W., & Turek, M. (2025). Volatile and non-volatile pathogen cues shape host extracellular vesicles production in pre-infection response. Nature communications, 17(1), 1038. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67789-z
  7.  Linke, V., Chodkowski, M., Kaszuba, K., Radkiewicz, M., Schrader, T. A., Das, H., Rana, V., Stadnik, D., Dadlez, M., Warscheid, B., Schrader, M., & Chacinska, A. (2025). Integrated proteome and lipidome analyses place OCIAD1 at the mitochondria-peroxisome intersection balancing lipid metabolism. Journal of cell science, 138(9), jcs263729. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.263729
  8. Mogilnicka, I., Jaworska, K., Koper, M., Maksymiuk, K., Szudzik, M., Radkiewicz, M., Chabowski, D., & Ufnal, M. (2024). Hypertensive rats show increased renal excretion and decreased tissue concentrations of glycine betaine, a protective osmolyte with diuretic properties. PloS one, 19(1), e0294926. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294926
  9. Młodzińska-Michta, E., Swiezewska, E., Hoffman-Sommer, M., Piłka, N., Radkiewicz, M. & Jarzembowski, P. (2023). Adaptation of the maize seedling seminal roots to drought: Essential role of plasma membrane H+-ATPases activity. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 92(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/177274
  10. Nguyen, M. N., Chakraborty, D., Rao, S. R., Onysk, A., Radkiewicz, M., Surmacz, L., Swiezewska, E., Soubeyrand, E., Akhtar, T. A., Kraft, T. W., Sherry, D. M., Fliesler, S. J., & Pittler, S. J. (2023). A Dhdds K42E knock-in RP59 mouse model shows inner retina pathology and defective synaptic transmission. Cell death & disease, 14(7), 420. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-023-05936-4
  11. Skubisz, K., Dąbkowski, K., Samborowska, E., Starzyńska, T., Deskur, A., Ambrozkiewicz, F., Karczmarski, J., Radkiewicz, M., Kusnierz, K., Kos-Kudła, B., Sulikowski, T., Cybula, P., & Paziewska, A. (2023). Serum Metabolite Biomarkers for Pancreatic Tumors: Neuroendocrine and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinomas-A Preliminary Study. Cancers, 15(12), 3242. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15123242
  12. Sawicka, A. K., Jaworska, J., Brzeska, B., Sabisz, A., Samborowska, E., Radkiewicz, M., Szurowska, E., Winklewski, P. J., Szarmach, A., & Olek, R. A. (2022). L-Carnitine Combined with Leucine Supplementation Does Not Improve the Effectiveness of Progressive Resistance Training in Healthy Aged Women. The journal of nutrition, health & aging, 26(10), 945–953. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12603-022-1848-y