Olha MYKHAILENKO

Olha MYKHAILENKO

OLHA MYKHAILENKO

Doctor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the National University of Pharmacy; Humboldt Fellow (Germany); visiting researcher UCL School of Pharmacy (UK)

Address: Kharkiv 61170, Valentinivska str., 4

Tel.: (0572) 67-92-04

e-mail: o.mykhailenko@nuph.edu.ua

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Education:

2024 – present: Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Kiel, Germany.

2024 – DSc in Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmacognosy;

2023 – present: visiting researcher in UCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom;

2020 – 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Georgiyants, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National University of Pharmacy (NUPh), Kharkiv, Ukraine;

2018−2020 Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Kovalyov, Department of Pharmacognosy, NUPh;

2008−2011 Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Pharmacognosy, NUPh, Ukraine;

2007−2008 Master of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, NUPh, Ukraine;

2002–2007 Bachelor of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, the National University of Pharmacy, Ukraine including scientific course “Medical plants and phytotherapy”, diplom defense at National University of Pharmacy, Ukraine and practical training in a pharmacy in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Experience:

2024 (Sept): visiting academics at Prof. Dr. Christian Zidorn’s Kiel Pharmacognosy Group (KPG), Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany [Pharmazeutisches Institut − Abteilung Pharmazeutische Biologie; Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Deutschland]

2024 (Jan-Aug): visiting academics at Prof. Gareth Williams’ research group, Pharmaceutical Materials Science, Research Department of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, UK http://www.garethrwilliams.org.uk/people.html )

2023-2024: visiting researcher at Prof. Michael Heinrich’ Research Group ‘Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy’ Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry, UCL School of Pharmacy, UK;

2021 – present: Research Specialist, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, NUPh;

2021 – present: Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, NUPh;

2020 – present: Lecturer and teacher of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, NUPh (Bromatology);

2011− 2020 Lecturer and teacher of Botany Department, NUPh;

2012 – PhD in Pharmacy, field: 15.00.02 Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmacognosy;

2010 – 2015 – Head of Student Scientific Society of NUPh.

Selected Honors

2023: Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Germany

2023: 1nd degree diploma “Best PhD of NUPh”

2023: GA Travel Grants for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, Dublin, Ireland.

2022: Cara (the Council for At-Risk Academics) Fellowship, UK

2021: President’s Prize for Young Scientists (Ukraine) for achievements in science and technology

2021: 2nd degree diploma “Best PhD of NUPh”

2020: 3rd degree diploma “Best PhD of NUPh”

2020: Nominee of the competition “Young Scientist of the Year 2020” Ukraine (nomination 89 PostDoc student in chemical and biological sciences)

Member of Editorial Board

  • Natural Product Communications, SAGE Publications Inc., USA, ISSN 15559475;
  • Associate Review Editors at Frontiers in Pharmacology (Ethnopharmacology), Frontiers Media S.A. Switzerland, ISSN 16639812;
  • Chemistry & Biodiversity; Wiley-VHCA AG, Switzerland, ISSN:1612-1880;
  • Guest Editor SI “Pharmacognosy: Natural Compounds from an Anti-aging Perspective 2023, 2024”, Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland, ISSN 1424-8247;
  • “Botanica”, Nature Research Centre, Lithuania, ISSN 2538-8649 (print);
  • “ScienceRise: Pharmaceutical Science”, Ukraine, ISSN 2519-4844 (print);
  • “Journal of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry”, Ukraine; ISSN 2308-8303 (print);
  • “Journal of Agricultural Studies”, USA, ISSN 2166-0379 (online).

Membership

  • Royal Society of Chemistry (Member ID: 761903, from 2024)
  • British Educational Research Association (BERA) (# 046675) (2024);
  • The Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, 104968 (2020-2023);
  • The Society of Chinese Natural Medicine (SCNM), Taiwan M00273 (2020-2023);
  • Phytochemical Society of Europe, 3044 (2020-2024);
  • American Society of Pharmacognosy (2023-2027)
  • American Botanical Council (from 2023)
  • Member-observer of Lithuanian Pharmaceutical Association (from 2021);
  • Council for Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (CONEM) Bromatology and Medicinal Chemistry Group (Ukraine, Norway) (from 2022);
  • Ukrainian Botanical Society (since 2019);
  • American Chemical Society. Agrochemicals Division 32726766 (2021-2022);
  • Society of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, India, PSAM10362 (2021-2022).

Grants and research projects

  • Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (letter from 20.10.22)
  • Global Engagement Funds (GEF) 2023/24
  • GA Travel Grants, Dublin, Ireland (2023)
  • Cara (Council for At-Risk Academics) Fellowship Programm (2022-2023), UCL School of Pharmacy, UK (1 Nov 2022 – 31 August 2024)
  • Erasmus+, Mobility for teaching (2022, 2024), University of Health Sciences, Lithuania
  • Erasmus+, Mobility for teaching (2023), Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
  • Creative Spark: Higher Education Enterprise Programme from British Council, EV16042V1W (2018-2021), United Kingdom;
  • International Cooperation Add-on Project (MAGIC), 108WFDG310121 (2019-2020), Taiwan

Research interests of the Group include, but are not limited to, classical pharmacognosy, food chemistry, environmental chemistry, agroecological chemistry, analytical chemistry, and technologies related to natural components; an interdisciplinary approach to studying natural compounds using modern methods to enable the discovery of the comprehensive potential of natural components for therapeutic applications.