Since 1995, he also worked at the Jagiellonian University Medical College (CMUJ), at the Department of Allergy and Immunology and as Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Internal Diseases, running research mostly in the fields of genetics and molecular biology.
In 1997, he spent two months in the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research in Davos. In 1998, he re-visited Harvard, making a two-month stay. He obtained the postdoctoral degree in medical sciences in the field of clinical genetics in 2001. In 2005, he obtained a specialization in clinical genetics, and in 2007 – a specialization in laboratory medical genetics.
In 2007, he received the title of professor of medical sciences.[2] Since 2008, he has been Head of the Department of Biochemical and Molecular Diagnostics at the University Hospital in Kraków, and since 2009 Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Clinical Genetics of the Medical Faculty of the Jagiellonian University Medical College. He was appointed the Jagiellonian University Rector's Plenipotentiary for Science and Development in the Medical College for the term 2016–2020.
He was the author of the discovery of the genetic polymorphism of the promoter region of the gene of the leukotriene C4synthase; and he participated in establishing the relationship between genetic overexpression caused by the presence of the altered allele of that gene and the overproduction of cysteinyl leukotrienes in bronchial asthma. For this last discovery, in 1997 he received the Lancet Investigators Award of The Lancet magazine, together with Andrzej Szczeklik.[1]
Sanak has been active as an academic teacher. Since 2003, he has been a lecturer at the Postgraduate Studies of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Jagiellonian University. Since 2005, he has been leading a course for the students of the Faculty of Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University. Since 2006, he has been leading the classes for the students of the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Medicine in English of the Jagiellonian University. He was the promoter of fourteen doctoral dissertations.[2]
Since 2003, he has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2006, he was elected a member of the Scientific Council of the School of Medicine in English of the Jagiellonian University. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Interdisciplinary Center of Bioethics of the Jagiellonian University Medical College, as well as member of the Committee of Physiological and Pharmacological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
He is a member of the editorial boards of journals Allergy and Medycyna Praktyczna; as well as the board of the popular science magazine Wszechświat. He is a member of the Program Council of the Science and Art Festival in Kraków (Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki).
He is married to Iwona Sanak, a voivodeship consultant in the field of pediatric dentistry. Their daughter, Katarzyna Sanak-Kosmowska, is a marketing theorist.
Distinction for the best lecturer awarded by the students of the School of Medicine in English of the Jagiellonian University Medical College (2013)[5]
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