In 1979, he obtained a doctoral degree in natural sciences in the field of biochemistry at the Medical University of Gdańsk.
[2] He received a habilitation in molecular biology in 1986 at the University of Gdansk and the title of professor in 1992.
In 1999, he won Poland's highest scientific award, Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science for "research on regulatory proteins constituting part of the system protecting cells against undesirable changes in their external environment".
He was head of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Between 2010 and 2015, he was an advisor on social policy to President Bronisław Komorowski.