Dina Kytova

Dina Kytova

Ph.D., associate professor

Languages for professional communication:

English

Description of the field of scientific research:

Chemistry of complex rhenium compounds; study of the biological activity of organometallic compounds; targeted drug delivery: nanoliposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, layered zirconium hydrophosphate; loading of nanoparticles with nutrients and food additives.

List of duties:

Associate Professor of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, guarantor of the “Food Chemistry” educational program. She teaches “General and Inorganic Chemistry” and “Food Quality and Safety”. In the scientific field, she is interested in nanosystems of various natures for targeted drug delivery, as well as the use of nanotechnological techniques in the food industry.

Professional experience:

Dina started her research career in 2008 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. From 2009 to 2015, she worked as an assistant at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology. In 2011, she was an intern at Jackson State University, USA.

Since 2015, she has been an associate professor and researcher at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology. From 2017 to 2020, she led the research project “Development of nanosystems for targeted drug delivery.”

In 2024, she joined the American Chemical Society as a Community Associate.

Keywords:

  • Chemistry

  • Teaching

Basic scientific publications:

  • Encapsulation of Dirhenium(III) Carboxylates into Zirconium Phosphate

    Anastasiia Slіpkan, Nataliia Shtemenko, Dina Kytova, Alexander Shtemenko, Acta Cimica Slovenica. 2020, 487–495

    Role: Author

  • New formulation and activity of rhenium-platinum antitumor system

    N.I. Shtemenko, D. E. Kytova, O. V. Berzenina, O. I. Hrabovska, A. V. Shtemenko. Ukr.Biochem.J. 2022; 92-98

    Role: Author

  • Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of the dirhenium complex Re2(i-C3H7CO2)4Cl2 and its interactions with the DNA purine nucleobases

    Alexander V. Shtemenko, Helen T. Chifotides, Dina E. Yegorova (Kytova), Natalia I. Shtemenko, Kim R. Dunbar, J.of Inorg. Biochem. 2015

    Role: Author

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