Nadiya Boyko Editor

Nadiya Boyko, Professor, DSc. Microbiology is Head of the Department of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics and Pharmacology, Director of Research Development and Educational Centre of Molecular Microbiology and Mucosal Immunology Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine. The research field priorities particularly are personalised nutrition and individual pharmabiotics in regulation of human [gut] microbiota for prevention of noncommunicable diseases, precise diagnostics, P4 medicine. Job-related skills: 35 years’ experience in research and leading research in bioeconomy, food  and health relevant fields, mainly dealing with food safety, human nutrition and human microbiome, individual nutrition needs, FCDB, impact of food on human host, mucosal immune response etc. She is a lecturer for native and foreign (English) speaking students, supervising PhD students, regularly acting as invited lecturer for the variety of international and national meetings, and master classes. She is an intensive participant with oral presentations, discussions, debates, etc. in health and food relevant EU and other countries leader associations’ workshops, congresses, committees, ambassador for Global Harmonization Initiative , president for SOMED (2022-2024).

She is dealing with a lot of national and international groups of contacts on regular bases and participating as p.i. in around 40 projects. She is also the author of about 350 scientific works, including 100 papers in professional scientific journals, more than 50 publications in the peer-reviewed journals, and Chapter in Elsevier press, index H=12. She is specialist with expertise in life sciences, participated in international projects like BaSeFood, JSO-ERA EU – FP7, CAPINFOOD (SEE), BacFoodNet (COST), ODiN (FP7), FoodWARD (Erasmus) and H2020 (SKIN) projects.

Prof. Dr. Golubnitschaja is the head of the world first Predictive, Preventive Personalised (3P) Medicine unit at the Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. She is educated in journalism, biotechnology and medicine and has been awarded research fellowships in Austria, Russia, UK, Germany, Netherlands, and Switzerland (early and predictive diagnostics in paediatrics, neurosciences and cancers).

Dr. Golubnitschaja is the author of more than 400 international publications (research and review articles, position papers, books, book and congress contributions) in the innovative field of predictive, preventive and personalised medicine (3PM) with the main research focuses on sub-optimal health conditions, pre- and perinatal diagnostics, diagnostics of cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative pathologies, predictive diagnostics in cancer and diabetes. In 1990-2002 she published as Olga Labudova. Cumulative Google Scholar h-index is 60. 

Awards: National & International Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation; Highest Prize in Medicine and Eiselsberg-Prize in Austria; Springer-Nature Award; EMA Award. 

In years 2009 – 2021 Dr. Golubnitschaja was the Secretary-General and since September 2021 she is the President of the “European Association for Predictive, Preventive & Personalised Medicine” (EPMA, Brussels) networking over 50 countries worldwide. She is Editor-in-Chief of the EPMA J. (actual Clarivate IF 6.543, Scopus CiteScore 11.3) and Editor-in-Chief of the Book Series “Advances in Predictive, Preventive & Personalised Medicine”, Springer Nature.

Dr. Golubnitschaja is the European Representative in the EDR-Network at the National Institutes of Health USA. She acts as a regular reviewer in over 50 clinical and scientific journals and as a grant reviewer of inter/national funding bodies in European and other countries.

Dr. Golubnitschaja is an evaluation expert at the European Commission. In years 2010-2013 she was involved in creating the PPPM related contents of the European Programme “Horizon 2020”.  Currently, She is Vice-Chair of the Habilitation Committee (responsible for all medical specialisations) at the Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, Germany and is Vice-Chair of the Evaluation Panel for Marie Curie Mobility Actions at the European Commission in Brussels.