On December 18 – 22, 2018, delegation of the NUPh (Head of the Pharmacognosy Department, Professor Koshovyi Oleh Mykoliovych; Head of the Pharmacotherapy Department, Professor Kireiev Ihor Volodymyrovych; Associate Professor of the Pharmacognosy Department Borodina Nataliia Valeriivna; Associate Professor of the Pharmacotherapy Department Trishchuk Nadiia Mykhailivna; Assistant of the Department of Human Physiology and Anatomy Shakina Liubov Oleksandrivna) has successfully completed the training and passed the 5th module in the framework of the three-month international distance-intramural internship (21.09.2018 – 21.12.2018) on the topic “Polish-Ukrainian Pedagogical Training Project: objectives, methods, plans, rules” for pedagogical and academic staff in Krakow University of Economics (Poland).
Results of the business trip:
- Program of the international distance-intramural three-month internship (21.09.2018 – 21.12.2018) on the topic ” Polish-Ukrainian Pedagogical Training Project: objectives, methods, plans, rules” was fully completed (216 hours). Taking into account those modern approaches and methods that were outlined during the entire internship, the graduation works were completed and defended. All the works received “excellent” marks. The certificates were received.
- Basic modern approaches, methods and forms of pedagogical activity, which are used in Polish higher education institutions, were mastered.
3. Meeting with the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University and his deputies was held. Presentation of the higher pharmaceutical education of Ukraine was made on the example of the National University of Pharmacy, prospects of scientific and academic cooperation were discussed, and conditions for signing of a cooperation agreement between the educational institutions were agreed.
29.10-16.11.2018 Associate Professor of the Department of Quality, Standardization and Certification of Medicines of the Institute of Pharmacy Professionals Qualification Improvement of the NUPh Savchenko Lesia Petrivna completed an internship at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas (Lithuania).
During the internship, Savchenko L.P. continued the previously initiated joint research studies on stability of the extemporal dosage forms using chromatographic methods: development of techniques for the quantitative determination of components of extemporal suspensions was continued using high-performance liquid chromatography; peach, sunflower and apricot oils were analyzed by high performance thin layer chromatography; analysis of oils by gas chromatography with masses and flame ionization detector were started; training in various methods of chromatography on modern equipment at the Departments of Analytical and Toxicological Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas was completed.
During the trip, Savchenko L.P. took part in the IX International Pharmaceutical Conference “Science and Practice 2018” at the invitation of the Lithuanian Pharmaceutical Association, where her poster report on the topic: “Stability studies of the compounding suspension from stomatitis” was presented.
Delegation of the National University of Pharmacy consisting of five faculty members: Head of the Department of Pharmacognosy, Professor Koshovyi Oleh Mykolaiovych, Head of the Department of Pharmacotherapy, Professor Kireiev Ihor Volodymyrovych, Associate Professor of the Department of Pharmacognosy Borodina Nataliia Valeriivna, Associate Professor of the Department of Pharmacotherapy Tryshchuk Nadiia Mukhailivna and Assistant of the Department of Human Physiology and Anatomy Shakina Liubov Oleksandrivna visited Kracow University of Economics (Kracow, Poland). The faculty members have passed the full-time module “European System of Higher Education: Selected Issues” (23.10.2018 – 27.10.2018) (Module 3) within the framework of the international distance learning three-month internship (21.09.2018 – 21.12.2018) “Polish-Ukrainian Project on Pedagogical Training: Goals, Techniques, Plans, Norms” for pedagogical and academic staff.
The whole delegation also took part in the Scientific and Practical Conference “Internationalization of higher education – separate issues. Ukrainian-Polish perspectives” and presented an oral report on results and perspectives of cooperation between the National University of Pharmacy and European educational institutions, in particular the Warsaw Medical University.
The perspectives of further pedagogical cooperation were discussed and the issue of organization of a meeting with the representatives of the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Krakow Medical University in December 2018 during the final exit module was agreed.
From 13.10.2018 to 20.10.2018 delegation of the National University of Pharmacy, consisting of the Head of the Pharmacognosy Department, Professor Koshovyi O. M. and Assistant Ochkur O.V. visited the Department of Chemistry «Ugo Schiff» of the University of Florence (Florence, Italy).
During the visit, the delegation had a series of meetings with administration of the Department of Chemistry «Ugo Schiff» Professor Andrea Gotti and Professor Masimmo Del Buba. There was organized an introductory tour to the University’s academic and research laboratories.
There was discussed the plan and agreed the list of researches to be conducted by Assistant of the Department of Pharmacognosy of the NUPh Ochkur O.V. during the two-month internship at the Department of Chemistry «Ugo Schiff» of the University of Florence.
During the visit, there was conducted an internship on the use of high-performance liquid chromatography method of with mass-detection in the analysis of polyphenols in raw materials of vegetable origin.
The prospects for further scientific and educational cooperation between the Universities were discussed within the framework of the agreement between the National University of Pharmacy and the University of Florence.
As a result of the business trip, the conditions and plan of work for the two-month internship of the Assistant of the Pharmacognosy Department Ochkur Oleksandr Vasylovych were agreed; the main approaches to the use the HPLC method with MS detection in the analysis of polyphenols in raw materials of vegetable origin were mastered; the possibility for young scientists’ training at the Department of Chemistry «Ugo Schiff» of the University of Florence (Florence, Italy) was discussed.
September 5-16, 2018, Surikova I.O. took part in the internship on Health Innovation, including Telemedicine, as part of the Open World Program (Dayton, Ohio, the USA).
Wright State University (Institute of Neurobiology, Kno.e.sis Center, Bunchouch Medical Institute), Ohio State University (College of Nurses and Medical Innovations), University of Cedarville (College of Pharmacy), Access Ohio Hospital, Dayton Hospital, Miami Valley Hospital, CareSource and Optimus Prosthetics (company specializing in the prosthetics) were visited during the trip.
As a result of the trip, preliminary agreements were reached on the possibility of an internship at the University of Ohio and distance learning under the Master of Innovation in Health program.
20.07.2018-03.08.2018 – internship of a group of Ukrainian scientists and students took place on the basis of the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Varna Medical University (Bulgaria).There were made visits to the Department of Pharmaceutical Technologies, where pharmacognosy is taught (the head of the department is Associate Professor Kaloyan Georgiev); and to laboratories of the departments of the pharmaceutical faculty (associate professor Ilya Zhelev, assistant Galina Dimova).
During the roundtable both sides discussed methods of pharmacognosy teaching in MU-Varna and NUPh . The Scientists of NUPh presented the results of their research on the study of chemical composition of medicinal plants. Associate professor I. Jeliev and assistant G. Dimova demonstrated various methods of analysis and allocation of biologically active substances from medicinal herbal raw materials in the phytochemical laboratory of MU-Varna.
During the meeting with the Vice-rector for international cooperation, accreditation and quality – professor MU-Varna Todorka Kostadinova and the head of International Cooperation Department – Aneta Dokova there were discussed the results of cooperation between the universities and their development within the Erasmus + program and inter-university agreements.
In order to study endemic, invasive kinds of herbal medical products (HMP) and harvesting of HMP, a group of scientists and students visited various phytocenosisin the Bulgarian nature reservations: Yaylata, Cape Kaliakra, Longoz, Kamchiya, where samples of raw material were harvested within the topics of investigation of assistants and associate professor of NUPh.
The group visited the university’s pharmacy, the botanical garden of Balchik and the Ecopark of Varna, where they found out more about the collection of medicinal plants.
After completing the internship, all participants received the relevant international training certificates.
As a result of the educational trip with the purpose of probation, the cooperation agreement between the NUPh and Varna Medical University was renewed; the results of cooperation and further plans were discussed; as well as the features of teaching of pharmacognosy; the results of scientific work of Ukrainian and Bulgarian scientists were presented. In the laboratory of the technology department methods of separation of alkaloids were worked out and the study of the chemical composition of raw materials which were harvested in Ukraine and Bulgaria was conducted; The group of NUPh was shown various phytocenosis where medicinal plants grow: Yaylata, Cape Kaliakra, Longoz, Kamchiya, where samples of raw materials were harvested according to research topics of assistants and associate professor of NUPh.
From October 17, 2017 – August 17, 2018 Associate Professor of the Department of Organic Chemistry Redkin R.H. completed postdoctoral internship to perform the research project “Synthesis of solvatochromic dyes to study of protein-membrane interaction” in the framework of the grant of the International Visegrad Fund (International Visegrad Fund Scholar application # 51700474), Prague, the Czech Republic.
The project was successfully implemented within the framework of the Visegrad Fund grant (on the basis of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Chemical Biology).
The project consisted of three sub-projects:
- (1A) Synthesis of fluorescent caged photoswitchable fatty acids;
- (1B) Synthesis of fluorescent caged photoswitchable diacylglycerols;
- (2) Synthesis of the clickable derivatives of fatty acids in order to study the metabolism of fatty acids in the membranes of breast cancer cells (biological part of the project is implemented in together with Dr. Christina Gava, Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milano).
The following steps were taken in the first part of the experimental work on the project:
– the detailed search and review of the literature relevant to the project;
– the planning of the synthesis of the target products;
– the six-step synthesis of the key fluorescent synthon of the 7-diethylamino-4-hydroxymethylcoumarin; as a result of the five-step synthesis scheme proposed for the project, six new compounds and pure substances were obtained whose structure and identity was confirmed by TLC, NMR and LC/MS techniques.
– the first studies of the photolysis of the resulting compounds under the control of NMR1H and the TLC were made;
– the method of the flash chromatography and preparative HPLC were mastered;
During the second half of the internship, the following activities were carried out:
– synthesis by the ‘micro-method’ of the fatty acid derivative and hydrophilic dye ATTO532 from the rhodamine group;
– synthesis of the clickable derivatives of fatty acids bearing 3H-diazirin, developed method of their synthesis, isolation and purification;
– the interaction of the previously synthesized by Redkin R.H. spiro-derivative with the fluorescent coumarinic nucleus R-203 with a range of liposomes – dipalmitoyl- phosphatidylcholine -cholesterol (1:1, DPPC/Chol) and sphingomyelin-cholesterol (1:1, SM-Chol) by fluorescence measuring method in their solutions using the Fluoromax-4 spectrophotometer (HoribaScientific).
During the two semesters of the internship in the Czech Republic, 18 presentations were made at the internal laboratory seminars and 3 reports were made on the basis of the results of experimental studies;
– on May 25, 2018, the results of research at the interlaboratory seminar ‘Chemical Biology’ were presented at the IOCB (moderator: Dr. Anna Tsakhova)
During the internship, Redkin R.H. together with other postdoctoral students took part in the scientific discussion with Prof. John Sutherland, invited by the IOCB, the Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, Great Britain; the 2-day training on ‘design of imagelike molecules’ was held at the IOCB with support of the company “Astra Zeneca” (lecturer: David Andrews, iStrategy Oncology, IMED Biotech Unit Cambridge) took part in 2 seminars “Prague membrane discussion”.
The research results were also presented at the All-Ukrainian field-oriented conferences: II All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference “Actual problems of chemistry: research and prospects”, (16.05.2018, Zhytomyr); All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation “Synthesis and analysis of biologically active substances and medicinal substances”, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Doctor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor Haidukevych A.N. (April 12-13, 2018, NUPh, Kharkov).
June 11-29, 2018 – scientific and pedagogical internship of the academic staff of the Department of Management and Economics of Pharmacy of the IPhPQI of the NUPh Adonkina Victoriia Yuriievna, Artiukh Tetiana Oleksandrivna, Zarichkova Mariia Volodymyrivna, Muzyka Tamara Fedorivna) under the program ‘Organization of the educational process, training programs, innovative technologies and scientific work on the basis of the Higher School of Business of the National-Louis University,’ Opole (Poland). Details
In June 25-30, 2018 delegation of the Management and Economics of Pharmacy Department of the Institute for Advanced Training of Pharmacy Specialists, including: associate professors of the department Zarichkova M.V. and Muzyka T.F. senior lecturers of the department Artyuk T.O. and Adonkina V.Yu. will undergo internship according to the program “Educational process organisation, curricula, innovative technologies and scientific activity” on basis of the Wyższa Szkola Biznesu – National-Louis University, Novyi Sonch, Poland (108 h).
On March 31 – April 8, 2018, delegation of the National University of Pharmacy, consisting of the Head of the Pharmacognosy Department, Professor Koshovyi O.M., the Head of the Pharmacotherapy Department, Professor Kireiev I.V. and 14 students: Hritsai Nadiia F., Holubchenko Tetiana V., Kobylko Maryna O., Melnyk Nataliia V., Podolian Yuliia O., Hrosova Anna O., Krytova Nelli A., Kriuchkova Maryna O., Mykha Mukhailo M., Starinova Mariia V., Tomash Anna O., Mukhailyk Diana O., Samadov Bakhodyrzhon and Tokhirov Akmal, visited the University of Tartu (Estonia), which occupies the 314th place in the ranking of the best universities in the world according to the consulting firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) (2016).
During the visit, Prof. Koshovyi O.M. O.M. and Prof. Kireiev I.V. underwent a scientific and pedagogical internship at the University of Tartu. Students underwent an internship in pharmacognosy. In general, students were trained in the amount of 1 credit (30 hours), of which 7 hours were lectures. Faculty members and students received the appropriate certificates.
During the visit, the NUPh delegation visited the University Clinic of the University of Tartu, the Institute of Pharmacy of the University of Tartu. There was held an excursion at the Institute of Pharmacy, the main building of the University of Tartu and the historical center of Tartu. Prof. Kireiev I.V. and Prof. Koshovyi O.M. met with the Head of the International Protocol Department of the University of Tartu, Suriie Uprus, with who they discussed further stages of cooperation and obtained consent for signing of the bilateral cooperation agreement between the Universities.
In Tallinn, the NUPh delegation visited the Tallinn Pharmaceutical Plant of “Grindex” company, the oldest pharmacy in Tallinn and a modern pharmacy, where they got acquainted with modern electronic dispersion methods of prescription drugs and distance forms of professional communication between a pharmacist and a patient in Estonia. The delegation also visited the modern “Biomed” plant in Helsinki (Finland), the Pharmaceutical Faculty of the University of Helsinki, which is the oldest university in Finland. Acquaintance with historical monuments of Helsinki and the cultural heritage of Finland were included in the visit.
Thus, organization of the educational process at the pharmaceutical departments of the University of Tartu and the University of Helsinki was studied in order to introduce the European experience at the NUPh; faculty members got acquainted with problems of the educational process in the pharmaceutical university in the context of new educational and information technologies, and integration into the scientific space. Educative work on cultural and European values and standards of life was carried out among students.
