Shubhada Bopegamage, PhD, MSc, Professor.

Director of the Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

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E-mail: shubhada.bopegamage@szu.sk; s.bopegamage@gmail.com

Education

• Title Professor of Medical Microbiology, On 9 May 2017, the professor's title in the field of "Medical Microbiology" was granted by the President of the Czech Republic on the proposal of the Scientific Council of the University of Defense of the Czech Republic/Faculty of Military Health, after the defense.
• Associate professor — Public Health June 2010, Slovak Medical University Slovak Academy of Science — Scientist grade IIA.
• 1984 — Ph.D in Biological Sciences. Title of the thesis: Influence of different interferon inducers and the immunocompetent cells on the type and properties of interferons produced (D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, Moscow, Academy of Medical Sciences Moscow) 
• M.Sc. 1977–1979 — Specialization: Microbiology. Bombay University, (Haffkine Institute), Bombay, India. By Papers. 1st Class (A grade).
• Project work title: Preliminary Characterization of Influenza Virus Induced Interferon.
• B.Sc. (Hons.) 1977 — Specialization in Microbiology, Chemistry, Botany. Poona University (Gareware college), Poona, India. 1st Class (A grade).

Special training merits and Grants

• Awarded special certificate — Fourth Place in Bombay University
• Special 1 year training Tissue culture and serology at National Institute of Virology, Pune, India
• Isolation and analysis of PrP by Western blot — Robert Koch Institute, Berlin
• ESCV Grant for Research-Exchange, January-April 2003
• Training course — Microbiological and Epidemiological Aspects of Outbreak investigations 2009 RIVM (National Institute of Public Health)
• European Society of Clinical Virology Workshop “Techniques in Clinical Virology”: April 2014 Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
• Observership — ESCV-ESCMID-ECDC- observership Stockholm, Sweden. 1-5th September 2014
• European Society of Clinical Virology Workshop “Congenital Viral Infections”: March 2015 University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Professional experience and positions

• Since January 2019 and present position — Director of the Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
• Since year 2011 and present position — Head of the National Reference Center for Identification of Enteroviruses
• Since year 2008 and present position — Head of Enterovirus Laboratory, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia (Govt. Inst.)
• Since 2007 — senior scientist at head positions (grade 13)
• Since year 2000 — Senior Research Scientist IIA (grade 12), Virology Department, Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine/Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia (Govt. Inst.)
• 1990–1999 — Research Scientist, Virology Department, Research institute of preventive Medicine, Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia (Govt. Inst.)

Research Experience

Since 1990 working in the field of Pathogenesis of Enteroviruses focus on coxsackieviruses:

• Experimental, in vitro and in vivo studies murine oral model of coxsackie virus infection
• Co-ordination of the of the research at the Enterovirus unit
• Involved in the Enterovirus National Reference Laboratory — work mainly on the introduction of modern methodology.
• Involved in the postgraduate teaching program of Slovak Medical University — teaching Tissue culture and Diagnosis of viral infections, Virology and Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Research topics

• Animal model studies, Enteroviruses, Coxsackieviruses, Infections during pregnancy, role of enteroviruses in chronic diseases — Type 1 Diabetes, Myocarditis, antiviral agents
• Public Health: enterovirus infections, their spread, diagnosis, Polio Eradication,

Completed international projects

• Introduction of new research and diagnostic methods for detection of evolutionary changes in enteroviruses and their effect on the pathogenesis. EEA Norwegian financial support mechanism, Norwegian financial support mechanism and Slovak Government (Principal Investigator)
• Introduction of new research and diagnostic methods for detection of evolutionary changes in enteroviruses and their effect on the pathogenesis. EEA. Seed grant of EEA Norwegian financial support mechanism, Norwegian financial support mechanism and Slovak Government (Project Coordinator)
• Ministry of Health Phare EU grant: Strengthening of Human Resources and implementation of the EU methodology for Surveillance of Human Enteroviruses in the Slovak Republic (Project manager)
• 2001 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation LST.CLG.979256 (Principal Investigator)
• IMPACT (Nuffic) Governmental Grant, September 2003 Implementation program on Virus Surveillance IMPACT (Principal Investigator)
• IMPACT (Nuffic) Governmental Grant, 2003 Molecular methods in experimental research and diagnosis for Enteroviruses – with training program (Principal Investigator)

Memberships

• Scientific council Faculty of Public Health of The Slovak Medical University, Bratislava.
• Czech and Slovak Microbiological society
• European Society of Clinical Virology ESCV
• E-journal of Slovak Medical University (on-line)
• President of the state MSc exams committee
• Member of the Scientific advisory board of the European Study Group on Molecular Biology of Picornaviruses EUROPIC meeting, Helsinki, Fínsko.
• Member of Scientific Council, Ministry of Health, Slovak Republic

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