Prof. OLEG O. KRISHTAL

O.O.KRISHTAL

KRISHTAL OLEG

• Date of Birth: July 5, 1945
• Place of Birth: Kiev, USSR
• Citizenship: Ukraine
• Mailing Address: Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Bogomoletz Str.4, Kiev, 01024, Ukraine
• Residence Address: Klovsky Descent 5, App. 61, Kiev, 01021, Ukraine
• Telephone: +380 44 256 25 24 (office), +380 44 253 90 83 (home), +380 50 410 62 85 (handy)
• Fax: +380 44 256 25 90
• E-mail: krishtal@biph.kiev.ua
• Web-site: http://www.deptcm.kiev.ua/krishtal/
• Present positions: Director of Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev, Head of the Department of Cellular Membranology, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev

Degrees:

• University degree in Molecular Physics (1968),
• PhD (1971),
• Doctor of Sciences (1978),
• Professor (1983),
• Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian (1985) and Russian (1987) Academies of Sciences,
• Member of Academia Europaea (1990),
• Full Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1997)

Post held

Research Fellow:

• Department of Biophysics and Physiology, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev, 1968-70.
• Junior Scientist, Department of General Physiology of Nervous System, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev, 1970-75.
• Senior Scientist of the above-mentioned department, 1975-82.
• Head of Department for Cellular Membranology, 1982 - up to date.
• Deputy Director, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology 2002- 2010.
• President of Ukrainian Society for Neuroscience 2005 – up to date
• President of Ukrainian Physiological Society 2010 – up to date
• Director, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology 2011 – up to date

Visiting professorships:

• University of Kyushu, Japan, 1983, 1986.
• Harvard University, USA, 1989.
• Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, 1993.
• University of Pennsylvania, USA, 1994.

Awards:

• State Prize of the USSR for Science, 1983.
• State Prize of Ukraine for Science, 2003
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Scholarships (1995 to 2005)
• Bogomoletz Prize for Physiology, 2013
• Kostyuk Prize for Neuroscience, 2014

Editorial activity

Member of Editorial Board in:

• Neuroscience,
• Autonomic Neuroscience,
• Purinergic Signalling
• Frontiers in Neuroscience
• Central European Journal of Biology

Publications:

169 publication in PubMed by Krishtal O and Kryshtal O; more than 7000 citations on these papers, h-index ca. 40.

Main discoveries:

• First intracellular perfusion (1975)
• Receptor for protons (ASIC), 1980
• Ionotropic ATP receptors (P2X), 1983.