PhD STUDENTS

Involvement of VISION partners in mentoring and co-supervision of PhD will increase the quality of education at universities, mainly medical and natural science faculties. PhD students of the Cancer Research Institute BMC SAS (Bratislava) are supervised by VISION project partners in the form of a co-supervision. Following PhD students have been allocated specific co-supervisors:

• PhD student: Kristína Kopecká, MSc.
  Topic of PhD thesis: Distribution, accumulation and biological effects of gold nanoparticles in vivo.
  Supervisor: Andrea Bábelová, PhD. - Cancer Research Institute BMC SAS, Bratislava
  Co-supervisor/consultant: Dr. rer. nat. Yvonne Kohl – Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik IBMT, Sulzbach, Germany (FhG)
 
• PhD student: Lucia Bálintová, MSc.
  Topic of PhD thesis: Biological safety of innovative nanotherapeutics with potential application in regenerative medicine.
  Supervisor: Dr. rer. nat. Monika Šramková, PhD - Cancer Research Institute BMC SAS, Bratislava
  Co-supervisor/consultant: Dr. rer. nat. Yvonne Kohl - Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik IBMT, Sulzbach, Germany (FhG)
 
• PhD student: Jana Hricovíniová, MSc.
  Topic of PhD thesis: New precursors of pharmaceuticals based on nitrogen heterocyclic compounds and glycoconjugates: structure-biological activity relationship analysis.
  Supervisor: Dr. rer. nat. Katarina Kozics, PhD. - Cancer Research Institute, Biomedical Research Center SAS, Bratislava
  Co-supervisor/consultant: Dr. rer. nat. Mária Dušinská, DSc. - Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway (NILU)
 
• PhD student: Verona Buociková, MSc.
  Topic of PhD thesis: Nanocarrier Mediated Multimodal Anticancer Therapy
  Supervisor: Bozena Smolkova, PhD. – Cancer Research Institute, Biomedical Research Center SAS, Bratislava
  Co-supervisor/consultant: Dr. rer. nat. Mária Dušinská, DSc. - Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway (NILU)
 
• PhD student: Michaela Blažíčková, MSc.
  Topic of PhD thesis: Relationship between structure and biological activity of newly syntethized thymol derivatives in colorectal in vitro model.
  Supervisor: Dr. rer. nat. Katarína Kozics, PhD. - Cancer Research Institute BMC SAS, Bratislava
  Co-supervisor/consultant: Dr. rer. nat. Mária Dušinská, DSc. - Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway (NILU)
 
• PhD student: Kristina Ploth, MSc.
  Topic of PhD thesis: Advanced in vitro and in vivo models derived from primary tumour tissue as tool for preclinical research
  Supervisor: Dr. rer. nat. Miroslava Matúšková, PhD. – Cancer Research Institute, Biomedical Research Center SAS, Bratislava
  Co-supervisor/consultant: Maria-Laura Garcia-Bermejo, PhD. - Instituto Ramon y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria, Madrid, Spain (IRYCIS)
 
• PhD student: Peter Dubovan, MD
  Topic of PhD thesis: Management of postoperative pancreatic fistula
  Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Daniel Pinďák, MD, PhD. – Slovak Medical University, Bratislava
  Co-supervisor/consultant: Prof. Manousos M Konstadoulakis - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece; and Julie Earl, PhD. - Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria, Madrid, Spain (IRYCIS)
 
• PhD student: Mária Urbanová, MSc.
  Topic of PhD thesis: Identification of molecular markers for early detection of pancreatic cancer
  Supervisor: Bozena Smolkova, PhD. – Cancer Research Institute, Biomedical Research Center SAS, Bratislava
  Co-supervisor/consultant: Julie Earl, PhD. - Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria, Madrid, Spain (IRYCIS)

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

• Student: Bc. Mária Urbanová
  Topic of thesis: The role of inflammation-induced epigenetic changes in the progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
  Supervisor: Bozena Smolkova, PhD. – Cancer Research Institute, Biomedical Research Center SAS, Bratislava

• Student: Bc. Tamara Sendrejová
  Topic of thesis: Liquid biopsy biomarkers of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
  Supervisor: Bozena Smolkova, PhD. – Cancer Research Institute, Biomedical Research Center SAS, Bratislava