The Centre of Translational Research of Respiratory and Metabolic Diseases of the Faculty of Medicine of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice was established in order to ensure the “from the bench to the bedside” (from the laboratory to the patient) approach, and it aims to study the effect of hypoxia on metabolic processes from the level of cells, through the level of tissues and organs, up to the level of the organism (the patient). The uniqueness of the clinical research institute lies in the parallel analysis of numerous physiological functions of an organism while being awake and also during sleep, in their subsequent computer analysis, and in the laboratories of basic research (molecular and biological laboratories and biophysical laboratories). The complexity of the equipment and of the scope of research are unique among the similar institutes of the EU.
Members of the Top Research Team – Faculty of Medicine:
- Ružena Tkáčová
- Ivan Tkáč
- Ján Šalagovič
- Pavol Joppa
- Martin Javorský
