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Department of Pharmacognosy and Botany

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VALENTYNA MINARCHENKO

Head of the Department, Doctor of biological sciences, Professor

In 1982–1985, she studied at the graduate school of the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany  of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and after graduation she worked as a junior researcher at the Department of Systematics and Floristics of Vascular Plants, a researcher, a senior researcher and Head of the Botanical Resource Science Laboratory.

In  2012, she defended her doctoral dissertation “Medicinal plant resources of Ukraine: differentiation, dynamics, strategy for optimization of use and preservation”.

She participated in the development of the Law of Ukraine “On the Plant World” (1999) and a number of subordinate legal acts in the field of accounting, regulation of the use and preservation of plant resources of Ukraine.

The main directions of scientific and practical work:

She has been working at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Botany since 2002 (part-time). Since 2013, she has been the Head of the Pharmacognosy and Botany Department, doctor of biological sciences, professor. The main direction of research is the diversity, use and resources of medicinal plants.

Publications:

Author and co-author of 220 scientific publications, including 12 monographs, two textbooks, 14 teaching aids. Main works: “Atlas of medicinal plants of Ukraine” (2002), “Medicinal vascular plants of Ukraine (medical and resource value)” (2005), “National atlas of Ukraine” (2007), “Resource science. Medicinal plants” (2014), “Medicinal fern-like, plaun-like and horsetail-like plants of Ukraine” (2019); textbooks and educational aids: “Medical Botany” (2009), “Pharmacognosia: a basic textbook for students of higher pharmaceutical educational institutions” (2016), “Medicinal plants resources” (2019).

Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57209231312

GoogleScholar  https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=YfTGcUQAAAAJ&hl=uk

Web of Science https://publons.com/researcher/3184529/valentyna-minarchenko/

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5049-7620

Selected publications: 

 

Minarchenko V.M.  Medicinal plants of Ukraine: diversity, resources, legislation // Medicinal plant conservattion. – 2011. – Vol. 14. – P. 7–13.

Minarchenko V.M.  Resource significance of medicinal plant populations as a result of their life strategy exhibition // Біол. системи (Чернівці). – 2013. – Т. 5, вип. 3. – С. 454–456.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ULIANA KARPIUK

Professor of department, Dr (PharmSc), professor

 

Uliana Karpiuk was born in 1983, graduated from the National Pharmaceutical University, Faculty of Pharmacy in 2005, and received a full higher education majoring in “Pharmacy” and qualified as a pharmacist.

In 2006, she entered postgraduate studies at the Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds of the National Pharmaceutical University. In 2009, Uliana Volodymyrivna defended her dissertation for the degree of candidate of pharmaceutical sciences on the topic ” Phytochemical study of Glycine hispida’s commercial species and creation of drug substances on its basis ” in the specialty 15.00.02 – pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy. In 2018, she received the academic title of associate professor at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Botany of Bogomolets National Medical University.

Uliana Karpiuk defended her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Pharmaceutical Sciences with the specialty 15.00.02 – pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy on the topic “Theoretical and practical justification of the creation, standardization, production of herbal medicines with the hemostatic and hypoglycemic action” in 2018. In 2020, she received the academic title of professor at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Botany of Bogomolets National Medical University.

Publications: the author of 140 scientific publications: 2 training manuals with the seal of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2 training manuals in English, 2 methodological recommendations, 7 patents, 13 scientific articles in periodicals included in the scientific and metric databases Scopus and Web of Science.

Hirsch index Scopus – 5, https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=43061247300

Hirsch index Google Scholar – 6,

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=xjHSJ_cAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=title

Hirsch index Web of Science – 4. https://publons.com/researcher/3184775/uliana-karpiuk/

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8316-4910

Internship:

  • Advanced qualification “Fundamentals of pedagogy and psychology in higher medical education” NMU, Kyiv, 2010
  • Advancement of qualification “Modern Pharmaceutical Expertise” NMU, Kyiv, 2010
  • Advancement of qualification “Modern innovative technologies of higher medical education”, NMU, Kyiv, 2015
  • Advanced training “Modern teaching methods in higher medical education” NMU, Kyiv, 2019
  • International internship “New and innovative teaching methods” Malopolska School of Public Administration, Cracow University of Economics, Krakow, Poland 2020
  • Improvement of qualification “Specifics of training of foreign applicants of higher education” IPKSF, Kharkiv 2022

Certificate British Council Aptis, рівень «С»;

Social activities:

  • Responsible for the scientific work of the department Responsible secretary of the annual scientific and practical conference PLANTA+.
  • Member of the Approbation Board of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Bogomolets NMU.
  • Member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Bogomolets NMU.
  • Member of the cycle methodical commission of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Bogomolets NMU.

                         

 

LARYSA MAKHYNIA

Associate Professor of the Department, PhD (BiolSc), Associate    Professor 

Makhinya Larisa Mykolaiyvna graduated with honors from the Faculty of Biology of The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy majoring in “Biology”, qualification biologist, ecologist, teacher of biology and ecology, specialization “Botany” in 2002.

In 2013 defended her dissertation on the topic: “Biological, ecological, coenotic and resource features of the species Bidens L. of the Dnipro valley (within the forest-steppe of Ukraine)” for the degree of candidate of biological sciences, specialty 03.00.05 – botany.

Ph.D. of pharmaceutical sciences (since 2013), associate professor (since 2021).

Publications:

Has published 85 scientific works. Among them, he is the co-author of the textbook “Medical Botany” and 3 textbooks, 2 monographs, methodological recommendations and laboratory journals for students in pharmaceutical botany, pharmacognosy, resource science of medicinal plants (50 works were published after the defense, of which 10 scientific articles were published in specialized scientific publications , of which there are 3 articles in English included in the list of scientometric databases Web of Science and Scopus). She participated in 30 scientific conferences), including Science and Education a New Dimension. Natural and Technical SciencesBudapest, Hungary.

Hirsch index (Google Scholar) – 4.

Internship:

  • Studied at the faculty of professional development of teachers of NMU and “Web of Science Core Collection for scientific work on the Clarivate 2021 platform
  • international internship “New and innovative teaching methods” Malopolska School of Public Administration, Cracow University of Economics, 2020 Krakow, Poland .

Scientific and pedagogical experience of 20 years.

The main directions of scientific and practical work: microscopic studies of medicinal and invasive plant species.

Scientific interests: morphology, plant anatomy, geobotany, psychology, pedagogy.

Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57216546884

Google Scholar  https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ru&user=aXqVyJwAAAAJ

Web of Science https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2107671

ORCID  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8095-4255

Public activity:

  • a member of the Central Committee of the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Bogomolets National Medical University
  • responsible for the distribution of the teaching load at the department.

Awards: The gratitude of the Kyiv City Mayor, Certificate of Honor of the Council of the Kyiv City Trade Union of Health Care Workers

 

 

IRYNA CHOLAK

Associate Professor of the Department, PhD (PharmSc), Associate    Professor 

In 1984 graduated from the biological faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in the specialty “Biology”, qualified biologist-botanist, teacher of biology and chemistry.

In 2015 defended her PhD dissertation on the topic: “Pharmacognostic study of Japanese sophora buds (Sophora japonica L.)” 15.00.02 – pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy.

Works as an associate professor of the department from 01.09.16

Publications: has published 59 scientific works. 34 works were published after the defence, including 5 scientific articles in specialized domestic scientific publications and 4 articles in foreign journals (3 of them are included in the scientific-metric database Scopus and 1 in the Web of Science). He is the co-author of 17 textbooks, 4 of them are in English for foreign students on pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical botany, the 1 monograph and the 1 textbook with the seal of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Has 2 patents No. 34500 “Method of storage of aqueous vitamin product “Sofora”” and No. 136010 “Method of assessing the fatty acid composition of the lipid complex using Spanish sage.”

  • Studied at the faculty of advanced training of teachers of NMU “Modern teaching methods in higher medical education”
  • international internship “New and innovative teaching methods” Malopolska School of Public Administration, Cracow University of Economics, 2020, Krakow, Poland.

Hirsch index (Google Scholar) – 3.

Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57190493828

Google Scholar  https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mU5EFSMAAAAJ

Web of Science https://publons.com/researcher/3184735/irina-cholak/

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1833-321X

Awards: Certificate of Honor of the Academic Council of Bogomolets National Medical University

 

 

Vitalii Pidchenko

Associate Professor of the Department, PhD (PharmSc), Associate    Professor 

 He graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Bogomolets National Medical University in 2010 and obtained a diploma with honors of higher education in the “pharmacy” specialty. From 2010 to 2011 he worked at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Botany of the Bogomolets National Medical University in the position of senior laboratory assistant. In 2011, he entered postgraduate studies at the Bogomolets National Medical University, specialty 14.03.05 “pharmacology”. Since December 2014, he has been working at the Bogomolets National Medical University in the position of assistant of the department, and since 2019 – in the position of associate professor of the department of pharmacognosy and botany.

He defended his dissertation on the topic: “Experimental justification of immunomodulating activity and safety of biomass powder of fungus Ganoderma lucidum (Curt.:Fr.) P.Karst.” in 2017.

He is PhD (Pharmaceutical sciences) since 2017, and an associate professor since 2021. The level of English is B2 (Aptis British Council).

Main directions of scientific and practical work:

Organization of the educational process using distance forms of education. Scientific interests are in the study of the influence of biologically active substances isolated from basidial fungi on various systems of the human body with the aim of creating new medicines.

Publications:

He is the author of more than 40 international and Ukrainian scientific works, including 5 articles in English, included in the Scopus databases. Pidchenko V.T. has 3 patents of Ukraine for a useful model, is a co-author of 8 educational and methodological manuals, and 1 monograph, participated in scientific conferences, including in EU countries (Poland, Austria). Hirsch index (Google Scholar) – 2.

Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57046053400
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=PihOyjUAAAAJ&hl=ru
Web of Science https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2982349?state=%7B%7D
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0850-6666

Social activities

  • a Member of the appeal commission of the II round of the All-Ukrainian competition for student scientific works in the specialty “Pharmacy” (in English) in 2021.
  • a Member of the organizing committee of the annual scientific and practical conference “PLANTA+”;
  • a Member and adjudicator of the All-Ukrainian Dance Sport Federation.

 

 

NADIIA KOVALSKA

Associate Professor of the Department, PhD (PharmSc), Associate    Professor 

 

Ph.D. of  pharmaceutical sciences (since 2005).

Associate Professor of the department of pharmacognosy and botany of Bogomolets National Medical University

University graduation year: 2000

Тhe name of the university:     Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University

The topic of the dissertation: Pharmacognostical investigation of willow gentian Gentiana asclepiadea L.

Training:

  • Training cycle “Development fragment distance course”, 2014
  • Training cycle “Standardized methods of diagnostics training of specialists in the field of knowledge“ Health care ”, 2016.
  • Thematic improvement “Multiple Choice Tests”, 2017.
  • Thematic improvement “Modern Lecture”, 2018.
  • Long-term professional development of scientific and pedagogical workers of higher educational establishments, O.O. Bogomolets Institute of Postgraduate Education, Educational and Scientific Center of Continuing Professional Education, 2019.
  • Advanced training according to the program “Specifics of training of foreign applicants of higher education”, 2022.

Main directions of scientific and practical work:

Number of trained: graduate students, masters/graduate students: 5 graduate students (masters)

Scientific interests: phytochemistry and microscopy of medicinal plants with antioxidant, hypoglycemic and anti-inflammatory effects

Publications – 124 (study guide – 16, scientific publications – 102, methodological recommendations – 3, patents – 3)

Google Scholar  https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=duKKMowAAAAJ&hl=ru

Web of Science https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/3091709

ORCID  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2673-5446

Public activity:

  • Member of the Academic Board of the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Bogomolets National Medical University
  • Member of the Approbation Council of the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Bogomolets National Medical University

 

 

 

ALINA BUTKO 

Associate Professor of the Department, PhD (PharmSc), Associate    Professor 

 In 2009, Alina Yuriivna graduated with honors from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Bogomolets National Medical University and entered into the “Golden Book of Honor” of the university. In 2011, she received her second higher education majoring in “Economics of Enterprise” and received a diploma with honors from Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman.

In 2010, she obtained the qualification “Master of Pharmacy” (diploma with honors). After completing full-time post-graduate studies in 2015, she obtained a diploma of Candidate of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy) with the specialty 15.00.02 – “Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy” at the Lviv National Medical University named after Danylo Halytskyi. Dissertation topic: “Pharmacognostic study of biologically active substances of Inula helenium and Inula Britannica and obtaining other substances on their basis” (supervisor – Professor N.P. Maksyutina).

2013 – 2019 – assistant professor of the department of pharmacognosy and botany of the Bogomolets National Medical University.

From 2019 to the present, she is an associate professor of the department of pharmacognosy and botany.

Since January 2021, she is an expert on accreditation of educational programs of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.

Main directions of scientific and practical work

Monitoring of the herbal medicine market, phytochemistry of herbs with antioxidant activity

Publications

She is the author of more than 100 scientific works, including 18 articles, 3 utility model patents, 2 information sheets, 9 training manuals, 8 regional formularies, 2 lecture courses, 1 collection of test tasks, 13 methodological instructions, 5 laboratory journals, co-author of the monograph.

Scientific profiles

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3985-6765

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=ULBNKSUAAAAJ&hl=ru

Publons https://publons.com/researcher/3212926/alina-butko/

Internship:

  • 2016 – training course at the Prague Institute on the program “Publication and project activity in the EU countries: from theory to practice” (Prague – Czech Republic).
  • 2017 – internship in HEALTHMAX PHARMACY (New York City – USA).

November 2018 – March 2019 – internship (internally-distance form) under the program of professional development “Professional development and pedagogical skills of a teacher of higher education”  in Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu – National-Louis University (Nowy Sącz – Poland).

  • 2019 – international postgraduate practical internship «New and innovative teaching methods in pharmacy» for teachers of higher educational establishments of pharmaceutical profile (Lublin – Poland).
  • 2020 – advanced training of scientific and pedagogical workers of higher education institutions in the educational and scientific center of continuous professional education of the Institute of Postgraduate Education at the Bogomolets National Medical University on the thematic improvement cycle “Modern teaching methods in higher medical education”.
  • December 2021 – January 2022 – a participant in the III International Program for Advanced Training of Heads of Educational and Scientific Institutions, as well as Pedagogical and Scientific Pedagogical Workers “Nobel Course: New Knowledge, Ideas, Experience, Values, Competences”.
  • 2021 – advanced training at the Ukrainian Military Medical Academy in the specialty “Organization and management of pharmacy”.
  • In 2022, a higher qualification category was assigned in the specialty “Organization and management of pharmacy”.

She has a certificate from the British Council, which confirms the B2 level of English.

She has the first qualification category in the specialty “Organization and management of pharmacy”.

Social activities:

  • scientific supervisor of the workshop of the department of pharmacognosy and botany;
  • responsible for international activities of the department;
  • responsible for keeping the time sheet of employees;
  • responsible for entering information about the scientific and pedagogical employees of the structural unit into the system of EDEBO;
  • member of the organizing committee of the annual scientific and practical conference “PLANTA+”;
  • member of the secretariat of the annual conference with international participation “Medical and pharmaceutical law of Ukraine: organization of pharmaceutical business, technology, pharmaceutical analysis and pharmacology of drugs, forensic pharmacy”;
  • member of the editorial team of the magazine in the field of pharmacy and medicine “SSP Modern Pharmacy and Medicine”.

Membership in professional associations

Member of the Pharmaceutical Chamber of Ukraine.

Member of the Association for Preventive and Anti-Aging Medicine

 

 

Tetyana Dvirna

Teaching Assistant of the Department, PhD (BiolSc)

Position/Field of scientific specialization ‒ PhD (botany)

Education ‒ Master degree – V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University of Poltava

Doctoral Degree, (Cand. Sci.) – M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany NASU

Degrees: 2013 – Ph.D. (Botany), M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, NAS of Ukraine. Thesis title: «The alien fraction of the flora of the Romensko-Poltavsky Geobotanical District and its invasive potential».

Work experience – 2008–2010 assistant at Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University of Poltava

2013–2015 leading engineer at M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany NASU 2015 – junior researcher at the Institute

From 2016 – researcher at the Institute

From 2014 – assistant at Department of Pharmacognosy and botany

Research experience ‒ synantrophic and alien flora, invasive plant species, population studies, medicinal plants, morphological and anatomical researches.

Publications: the author of 80 scientific publications: 2 monographs, 1 methodological recommendations, 6 educational (educational and methodological) guides, 8 scientific articles in periodicals included in the scientific and metric databases Scopus and Web of Science.

Hirsch index Scopus – 1, https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57201388513

Hirsch index Google Scholar – 5,

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1aoG86oAAAAJ&hl=uk

Hirsch index Web of Science – 2 https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/I-3145-2016

Hirsch index Researchgate – 5, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tetyana-Dvirna

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9279-9766

Internship:

  • Advanced qualification «Psychological and pedagogical features of the organization of the educational process of foreign students» Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, 2015.
  • International internship «Scientific and pedagogic internship. Innovative methods for the organization of educational process for medical students in Ukraine and EU countries». Cuiavian University in Włocławek, Poland, 2020.

 

 

 

VERESKUN YEVHENIA YURIIVNA

Senior laboratory assistant

In 2023, she graduated from the Bogomolets National Medical University with a Master’s degree in Pharmacy, specialty “Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy”.  2023-2024 she studied at the internship in the specialty “General Pharmacy” at the Ukrainian Military Medical Academy (UMMA).

Since April 2024, she has been working at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Botany as a senior laboratory assistant.

Her research interests are focused on the phytochemical study of medicinal plants.

From 09/18/2023 to 10/18/2023, she completed an internship under the program “Academic Integrity, Open Science and Artificial Intelligence: How to Create a Fair Educational Environment”, with a teaching load of 30 hours (1 ECTS credit). Participation is confirmed by a Certificate of Advanced Training.

She also took part in a webinar for scientists from Elsevier entitled “How to publish in the Elsevier journal: the first steps of a novice author”. Participation in the webinar is confirmed by a certificate.

 

 

 

NEDILKO OLENA BORYSIVNA

Laboratory assistant