Barbara Przewłocka

Barbara Przewłocka (born 1942) is a Polish neuropharmacologist, professor of medical sciences, Head of the Drug Addiction Laboratory, then the Department of Pain Pharmacology at the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1997–2016), member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Biography In 1965 she graduated in biology from the Jagiellonian University. In 1973 she obtained Ph.D. in natural sciences. She has published over 200 original scientific papers. She was elected to the board of the Polish Society for the Study of Pain. She served on the editorial boards of several journals.

She edited a volume published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow.

Awards In 1998, together with Ryszard Przewłocki and Halina Machelska, she received the Tadeusz Browicz Award from the Medical Faculty of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2010, she received the Nicolaus Copernicus Scientific Award from the City of Kraków Foundation in the field of medicine for “discoveries in explaining the mechanism of neuropathic pain, reflected in a number of publications in renowned global journals, constituting significant progress in medical research.”

In 2019, during the 11th Congress of the European Pain Federation (EFIC) in Valencia, she received the European Pain Federation Pain Champion award.