Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Biochemistry named after Academician M. F. Gulyi

03127, Kyiv, Potekhina str.16, building 12

Ihor V. Kalinin

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Education

Ihor Kalinin was born on January 28, 1970, in the village of Dmytrivka, Znamianskyi district, Kirovohrad region, into a family of employees (his father and mother are veterinarians). After graduating from high school with a gold medal, he entered the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy (Kyiv), graduating with honors in 1992. In 1996, he completed his full-time postgraduate studies at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and in 2013, he completed his full-time doctoral studies at the Department of Biochemistry of the Institute of Biology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Dissertation research

Candidate of Biological Sciences (1998): dissertation on "The influence of acid-base state on the indicators of energy and nitrogen metabolism and the intensity of heavy metal elimination in the tissues of toxicized rats", specialty 03.00.04 - biochemistry. He was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor of the Department of Animal Biochemistry, Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products in 2001. Doctor of Biological Sciences (2014): dissertation on "Biochemical mechanisms of heavy metal neutralization in rat tissues" in the specialty 03.00.04 - Biochemistry. He was awarded the academic title of Professor of the Department of Chemistry in 2018.

He began his scientific and pedagogical career in 1992. He worked as a researcher, assistant, associate professor, professor, and head of the department. He has 31 years of teaching experience.
He teaches the disciplines "Biochemistry with the basics of physical and colloidal chemistry", "Veterinary clinical biochemistry".
He completed an internship at the University of Iowa (USA, 1997) under the Beef, dairy and swine production medicine program.
During 2002-2008, he was an academic secretary of the specialized academic council for the defense of doctoral (candidate) dissertations D 26.004.08 (specialty 03.00.04 - biochemistry).
He completed an internship as part of the Erasmus+ academic mobility program for faculty (Banat's University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" of Timisoara, 2017). In 2019 - training for experts in higher education quality assurance under the program: "Quality of Higher Education: European Dimension. Quality of higher education in the Ukrainian context. Methodology of quality management in higher education. Interaction of stakeholders in the educational process".
Since 2020, she has been an expert on accreditation of educational programs of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.
She has a certificate of language competence (English) - B2.
Head and member of project teams for the development of educational and professional programs for bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees.
Scientific interests

Study of the content, migration and biotransformation of xenobiotics in the body of animals and environmental objects, as well as the effect of xenobiotics on biochemical processes in the body of animals.

Internship

During 2015-2021, he was a member of the editorial board of the Scientific Journal of the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (Biology Series), the editorial board of the proceedings of the International ("Fundamental and Applied Research in Modern Chemistry" (from 2020 - "Fundamental and Applied Research in Modern Chemistry and Pharmacy", 2016-2021) and All-Ukrainian ("Actual Issues of Training a Future Chemistry Teacher: Theory and Practice", 2016-2020) scientific and practical conferences.

Expert, project and community activitie

Scholar of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (1998-2000); Taras Shevchenko Prize of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2013); Medal "For Scientific Achievements" (Natural Sciences) of the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (2017). Drahomanov National Pedagogical University (2017); Certificate of Honor of the Rector of the National Pedagogical University named after M. P. Drahomanov (2018); Acknowledgment of the Rector of the National Pedagogical University named after M. P. Drahomanov (2020); Acknowledgment of the Kyiv Territorial Branch of the NAS of Ukraine (2022); Certificate of Honor of the Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the National University of Education and Science of Ukraine (2022).

Selected publications

269 scientific publications, including 3 textbooks, 3 monographs, 9 patents for inventions and utility models, 75 teaching aids.