Prof.dr hab. Bożena Muszyńska is a professor of medical sciences and health sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University Medical College and Chief of Department of Pharmaceutical Botany. She is a clinical pharmacist, specialist of anlitycal pharmacy, a mycologist, and a botanist. She is a member of the Polish Mycological Society and the vice-chair of the Medical Mycology Section. For the past 35 years, her main research goal has been to demonstrate the nutritional and therapeutic value of edible mushrooms. Another goal of her research in the field of mushroom biotechnology is to propose fungal culture as a rich, alternative source of dietary and therapeutic ingredients. An important direction of her research in the field of micochemistry is the evaluation of the biological activity (including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antidepressant, and immunostimulating) of extracts obtained from the fruiting bodies and mycelium of the studied species. Due to the widespread use of mushroom fruiting bodies in animal feed and the need to develop a feed additive with immunostimulating, prebiotic, anti-inflammatory, and selenium-supplementing effects to reduce livestock mortality, she began collaborating with the Institute of Animal Science and the National Veterinary Research. She is the author of more than 650 scientific works and five books,