Department of Pharmacy
Head of the Department
Kateryna SHCHOKYNA,
Doctor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor
kateryna.shchokyna@khim.edu.ua
Was born on March 7, 1964 in Kharkiv. In 1987, graduated from the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute with honours. In 2002, she graduated from the National Academy of Pharmacy of Ukraine and received a Pharmacist’s Degree. From 2003 to 2009, she worked as an Assistant at the Department of Pharmacology of the National University of Pharmacy. In 2006, she defended her PhD thesis on “Experimental Substantiation of the Rational Choice of Modern and Promising Drugs with Anti-Inflammatory Effect”. In 2010, she was promoted to Associate Professor of Pharmacology. In 2011, she defended her Doctoral Dissertation on “Organotropic Effects of a Recombinant Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist (Experimental Study)”. In 2013, she was promoted to Professor of the Department of Pharmacology. From 2013 to August 2020, she worked as a Professor of the Department of Pharmacology, from 2020 to August 2024 – as a Professor of the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy of the National University of Pharmacy. Since September 2024, she is the Head of the Department of Pharmacy at the Kharkiv Institute of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
She is the author and co-author of 350 scientific publications, including 4 textbooks on pharmacology, 26 manuals, 1 monograph, 16 patents, 4 methodological recommendations, 8 information letters. Under my supervision, 3 PhD theses and 12 master’s theses were defended.
She studied at the Linguistic Centre of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, level of English – Upper-Intermediate – level B2.
She is a member of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology “IUPHAR” and the Association of Pharmacologists of Ukraine. For 20 years, she was the scientific secretary of the Expert Problem Commission “Pharmacy” of the Ministry of Health and the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, was a member of the Academic Council in the specialty D. 64.605.03 – Pharmacology, held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Approval Academic Council in the specialty D. 64.605.03, during 2020-2022 she worked as a scientific secretary of the Academic Council in the specialty D. 64.605.03. She was awarded a diploma of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2014), gratitude for active participation in the project METRO SCHOOL “Magic World of Pharmacy” (2023).
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