RNDr. Terézia Šimková, PhD.

	Email:	terezia.simkova@upjs.sk
	Homepage:	https://www.upjs.sk/LF/zamestnanec/terezia.simkova
	Faculty:	LF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Medicine
	Department:	UP - Department of Pathology
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	ORCID ID:	0000-0003-1184-9790

RNDr. Terézia Kisková PhD. is an independent researcher in the field of physiology and works at the Institute of Pathology of the UPJŠ LF and UNLP. The research area of her team focuses on experimental oncology, neurooncology or other neurological diseases, such as depression. She also focuses on applying synthetic drugs or natural substances, such as secondary plant metabolites, during these diseases. The area of interest of the research team also includes the search for predictive markers in the blood during various oncological or neurological diseases. Dr. Kisková works as a supervisor of bachelor's, diploma or dissertation theses.

Higher education and further qualification growth

First degree of higher education:

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, 2005, Biology

Second degree of higher education:

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, 2008, Cellular and molecular biology and genetics

Third degree of higher education:

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, 2012, Animal Physiology

Associate professor:

UPJŠ a Komisia SAV pre posudzovanie vedeckej kvalifikácie zamestnancov, 2018, VKS IIa

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Profile courses
Histology and Pathology - Laboratory diagnostic methods in healthcare, I degree
Selected projects
TRL (09I05-03-V02-00078) - Digitization of biomedical laboratory analyses - coinvestigator
APVV (APVV-23-0354) A personalized approach of the selection and application of effective probiotics and synbiotics in the management of obesity- coinvestigator
VEGA 1/0648/25 Analysis of P2X receptor levels in the brain and selected body fluids of laboratory animals with experimentally induced depression - principal investigator
KEGA 016UPJŠ-4/2026 Innovative approaches to practical teaching of Diagnostic methods in histopathology - principal investigator
VVGS IPEL (vvgs-2025-3740) Creation of an e-learning course for the subject "Examination Methods in Histopathology" - principal investigator
International mobilities and visits
Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1.5.2010-30.9.2010, Ernst-Mach Stipendium, SAIA
Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1.9.2015-1.12.2015, Aktion Oesterreich-Slowakei, SAIA

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Awards

2014 European Association for Cancer Research - EACR-23 Meeting Bursary Winner (5.-8. July 2014, Munchen, Germany) 2015 SG-BCC 2015- 14th St Gallen Breast Cancer Conference – Travel Grant Winner (18- 21. March 2015, Vienna, Austria) 2016 Young Oncologists Competition, 3rd winner place (9. March 2016, Košice, Slovakia) 2017 Winner of the section Cellular metabolism, physiology, molecular biology and genetics in IX. Interactive conference of young scientists 2017 L´oreal UNESCO for Women in Science 2017 – semifinal round (22. Juny 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia) Falling Walls Lab 2017 – final round (29. September 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia) 2018 ESMO Symposium on Signalling Pathways in Cancer 2018 - Travel Grant Winner (23.-24. March 2018, Barcelona, Spain) 2019 INDC 2019 conference, winner of poster session, 1st place (15.-18. October 2019, Praha, Czech Republik)

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