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Iowa State
University
Professor
University of P. J. Safarik
Kosice, Slovak Republic
Dr. Pavol Miskovsky received the degree of Doctor Scientarium D.Sc in Biophysics, the highest scientific degree in East and Central European countries, from Comenius University, the Bratislava Slavic Republic in 2000. The title of his dissertation is: “Hypericin-an antiviral and antitumor photoactive agent: Mechanism of action and interaction with biomolecules.” He did pos-doctoral work at the Curie Institute, Laboratoire de Physicochimie Biomoleculaire et Cellulaire, Paris from 1987 to 1988 and 1992, and at the Dipartimento di Bioquimica, Univesitá di Bologna, Italy in 1993. He has held the following research and academic positions: 1978-1971-Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia; 1991-1993- Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics at the same university; 1998-2001-Associate Professor Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia; 2001-present, Professor Department of Biophysics, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia; 2001-present, Research Professor at the International Laser Center, Bratislava, Slovakia. His research interests include: photo-physics, photo-chemistry and photobiology of antiviral and antitumor photoactive agents hypericin and hypocrellin; mechanism of their antiviral and antitumor action from the molecular and cellular levels to applications in photodynamic therapy; structure and conformation of biological macromolecules, DNA in particular, and their interactions with ligands, mainly drugs. He has received numerous honors and awards including: Award of the Czechoslovak government for results in applied science in 1989, gold medal for “Flow Injection Analyzer PIA-O1” from the international fair “Zeme Zivtelka”, Award of the President of the Faculty of Natural Science, Safarik University, 1997, an invitation to publish review papers in prestigious scientific peer-reviewed journals: Photochemistry and Photobiology in 2001 and “ Current Drug Targets.” He was president of the Slovak Biophysical Society in 2001, vice president of the National Committee for Doctoral Study in Biophysics in 1997, member of the European Society for Photobiology, and member of the Slovak Society of Physics among others. He has published more than sixty papers in peer-reviewed journal and presented eighteen lectures and more than fifty abstracts in research conferences.
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