prof. Ing. Marián Valko, DrSc.

External academic staff

Phone:
037 6408 656

E-mail:
mvalko@ukf.sk

Room: C-6

 

 

Education and Academic Degrees:

Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava:

  • M. Sc. in Physical Chemistry (1987)

Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava:

  • Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (1991)

Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava:

  • Assoc. Prof. in Physical Chemistry (1999)

Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava:

  • D.Sc. in Physical Chemistry (2004)

Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava:

  • Professor in Physical Chemistry(2010)

Teaching:

  • Physical Chemistry

Research stays abroad:

  • PECESS postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Natural Sciences, Liverpool
  • Polytechnic, Liverpool, UK (1991/1992)
  • The Royal Society Visiting Scientist, School of Pharmacy and Chemistry
  • Liverpool John Moores University, UK (1994/1995)
  • DAAD Visiting Scientist, NMR Laboratory, Bremen University, Bremen, SRN (2004)

Selected Publications:

Chapters in foreign monographs:

Jomová, K., Lawson, M., Valko, M.
Mechanisms of antioxidant activity.
Food Oxidants and Antioxidants: Chemical, Biological, and Functional Properties. Editors: G. Bartosz, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis group, Boca Raton, FL, 2013, p. 325-342. 

Jomová, K., Valko, M.
Thermodynamics of free radical reactions and the redox environment of a cell.
Oxidative Stress: Diagnostics and Therapy. Editors: S. Andreescu, M. Hepel,American Chemical Society, Washington DC, 2012

Jomová, K., Valko, M.
Free radicals, signal transduction, and human disease.
Oxidative Stress in Vertebrates and Invertebrates: Molecular Aspects of Cell Signaling.Editors: T. Farooqui, A. A. Farooqui, Wiley-Blackwell, New York, 2011, p. 17-32.

Selected publications in journals registered in the Current Contents:

Gala, L., Lawson, M., Jomová, K., Zelenický, Ľ., Čongradyová, A., Mazúr, M., Valko, M.
EPR Spectroscopy of a Clinically Active (1:2) Copper(II)-Histidine Complex Used in the Treatment of Menkes Disease: A Fourier Transform Analysis of a Fluid CW-EPR Spectrum.
In Molecules. 2014,Vol.19, Is.1, p. 980-991   

Jomová, K., Valko, M.
Health protective effects of carotenoids and their interactions with other biological antioxidants.
In European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 2013,  Vol.70,  p. 102-110   

Jomová, K., Baroš, S., Valko, M.
Redox active metal-induced oxidative stress in biological systems.
In Transition Metal Chemistry. 2012, Vol. 37,   Is.2, p. 127-134   

Jomová, K., Vondraková, D., Lawson, M., Valko, M.
Metals, oxidative stress and neurodegenerative disorders.
(One of the most downloaded articles). In Mol. Cell. Biochem. 2010, 345, p. 91-104

Jomová, K., Zelenický, L., Morris, H., Mazúr, M., Valko, M.
Chemo-mechanical coupling in molecular motors interpreted through the uncertainty relations.
In Chem. Phys. 2010, 372, p. 13-16

Jomová, K., Kyseľ, O.,  Madden, J.C..  Morris, H., Enoch, S.J., Budzák, S.,  Young, A.J.,  Cronin, M.T.D., Mazúr, M., Valko, M.
Electron transfer from all-trans beta-carotene to the t-butyl peroxyl radical at low oxygen pressure (an EPR spectroscopy and computational study).
In Chem. Phys. Letters. 2009, 478, p. 266-270

Valko, M., Leibfritz, D., Moncoľ, J., Cronin, M.T.D., Mazúr, M., Telser, J.
Free radicals and antioxidants in normal physiological functions and human disease.
In Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol. 2007, 39, p. 44-84

Valko, M., Rhodes, C.J., Moncoľ, J., Izakovič, M., Mazúr, M.
Free radicals, metals and antioxidants in oxidative stress-induced cancer.
In Chem. Biol. Interact. 2006, 160, p. 1-40

Valko, M., Morris, H., Cronin, M.T.D.
Metals, toxicity and oxidative stress.
In Curr. Med. Chem. 2005, 12, p. 1161-1209

Valko, M., Izakovič, M., Mazúr, M.,  Rhodes, C. J., Telser, J.
Role of oxygen radicals in DNA damage and cancer incidence.
In Mol. Cell. Biochem. 2004, 266, p. 37-56

Brezová, V., Valko, M.,  Breza, M., Morris, H., Telser, J.,  Dvoranová, D.,  Kaiserová, K., Varecká, L., Mazúr, M., Leibfritz, D.
Role of Radicals and Singlet Oxygen in Photoactivated DNA Cleavage by the Anticancer Drug Camptothecin: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study.
In J. Phys. Chem. B. 2003, 107, p. 2415-2425

Science Citation Index (SCI) by Thomson Reuters:

To date more than 13 800 SCI citations (September, 2016)

Projects:

  • PECESS Fellowship: 1991-1992 (UK), Head of project
  • British Council: 1993-1995 (UK),Head of project
  • The Royal Society: 1994-1995 (UK), Head of project
  • NATO: 1999, 2003 (USA), Head of project
  • DAAD: 2004 (Germany, Head of project
  • The Leverhulme Trust: 2004-2008 (UK), Head of project
  • British Council: 1990 (UK), Head of project
  • VEGA: 1993-up to now (Head of projects)
  • APVV: 2000-up to now (Co-worker of projects)