Janka Vašková
Janka Vašková, assoc. prof. Dr. PhDis a researcher at the Department of Medical and Clinical Biochemistry, UPJŠ in Košice, Faculty of Medicine. She completed a study stay at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague and Charles University in Bratislava (2001) and the Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine in Pécs, Hungary (2006, 2007, 2008). She is the author of two monograph, 5/3 textbooks/book chapters and 225 scientific papers (76 in CC, WoS or Scopus databases). She was also the principal investigator of VEGA project and co-worker of projects (VEGA, SF EU). She was supervisor of 5 doctoral students in the clinical biochemistry study program and 1 in the anthropology study program. Currently deals with detection of pro- and antioxidant properties of natural and synthetic substances, their effect on the antioxidant status of the organism, as well as assessment of treatment success and patient prognosis by detecting the changes in selected antioxidant markers.