I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Babincová

I.2 - Name

Melánia

I.3 - Degrees

Prof. RNDr. DrSc.

I.4 - Year of birth

1963

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Mlynská dolina F1, 842 15 Bratislava

I.7 - Position

Professor

I.8 - E-mail address

babincova@fmph.uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4513

I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university

Physics

I.11 - ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4400-310X

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

II.b - Year

1994

II.c - Study field and programme

Biophysics and Chemical Physics

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

II.b - Year

1994

II.c - Study field and programme

Biophysics

II.4 - Associate professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

II.b - Year

2000

II.c - Study field and programme

Biophysics

II.5 - Professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics

II.b - Year

2008

II.c - Study field and programme

Physics

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

II.a - Name of the university or institution

University Pavla Jozefa Šafárika, Košice

II.b - Year

2014

II.c - Study field and programme

Biophysics

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
Assistant professor	Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics	1995-2000
Associate professor	Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics	2000-2008
Professor	Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics	2008-doteraz

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.1.a - Name of the profile course	V.1.b - Study programme	V.1.c - Degree	V.1.d - Field of study
Practicals from mechanics	Biomedical Physics	I.	Physics
Introduction to general biology	Biomedical Physics	II.	Physics
Selected chapters from biomechanics	Biophysics	III.	Physics

V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year

V.2.a - Name of the study programme	V.2.b - Degree	V.2.c - Field of study
Biomedical Physics	I.	Physics
Biomedical Physics	II.	Physics
Biophysics	III.	Physics

V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year

V.3.a - Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure	V.3.b - Study field to which it is assigned
Physics	Physics

V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses

V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)

V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.5.a - Name of the course	V.5.b - Study programme	V.5.c - Degree	V.5.d - Field of study
Physical principles of processess in living organism	Biomedical physics	I.	Physics
Nanostructures in medicine and biology	Biomedical physics	II.	Physics
Introduction to biomechanics	Biomedical physics	II.	Physics
Environmental biophysics	Environmental physics and meteorology	III.	Physics

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations

VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

186

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

2700

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

543

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

1532

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

365

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Babincova, M., Čičmanec, P., Altanerova, V., Altaner, Č., & Babinec, P. (2002). AC-magnetic field controlled drug release from magnetoliposomes: design of a method for site-specific chemotherapy. Bioelectrochemistry, 55(1-2), 17-19.

Babincová, M., Altanerová, V., Altaner, Č., Čičmanec, P. & Babinec, P. (2004) In vivo heating of magnetic nanoparticles in alternating magnetic field", Medical Physics, 31(8), 2219-2221.

Babincová, M., Leszczynska, D., Sourivong, P., Čičmanec, P., & Babinec, P. (2001). Superparamagnetic gel as a novel material for electromagnetically induced hyperthermia. Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials, 225(1-2), 109-112.

Babincova, M., Altanerova, V., Bergemann, C., & Babinec, P. (2008). In vitro analysis of cisplatin functionalized magnetic nanoparticles in combined cancer chemotherapy and electromagnetic hyperthermia. IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, 7(1), 15-19.

Durdík, Š., Krafčík, A., Babincová, M., & Babinec, P. (2013). Conceptual design of integrated microfluidic system for magnetic cell separation, electroporation, and transfection. Physica Medica, 29(5), 562-567.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

Krafcik, A., Babincova, M., Babinec, P., & Frollo, I. (2022). Computational study of intravenous magnetic drug targeting using implanted magnetizable stent. International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, 23(7-8), 971-983.

Andrýsková, N., Vrbovská, H., Babincová, M., Babinec, P., & Šimaljaková, M. (2023). Dissolution of lysozyme amyloid fibrils using magnetic nanoparticles in an alternating magnetic field: Design of an effective treatment for cutaneous amyloidosis. Magnetochemistry, 9(3), 84.

Andrýsková, N., Sourivong, P., Babincová, M., & Šimaljaková, M. (2021). Controlled release of tazarotene from magnetically responsive nanofiber patch: Towards more efficient topical therapy of psoriasis. Applied Sciences, 11(22), 11022.

Babincová, N., Jirsák, O., Babincová, M., Babinec, P., & Šimaljaková, M. (2020). Remote magnetically controlled drug release from electrospun composite nanofibers: design of a smart platform for therapy of psoriasis. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A, 75(7), 587-591.

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

Práca: Babincova, M., Čičmanec, P., Altanerova, V., Altaner, Č., & Babinec, P. (2002). AC-magnetic field controlled drug release from magnetoliposomes: design of a method for site-specific chemotherapy. Bioelectrochemistry, 55(1-2), 17-19.

Citation: Laurent, S. - Forge, D. - Port, M. - Roch, A. - Robic, C. - Vander Elst, L. - Muller, R. N.: Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: Synthesis, stabilization, vectorization, physicochemical characterizations, and biological applications.In: Chemical Reviews, Vol. 108, No. 6, 2008, s. 2064-2110 - SCI ; SCOPUS

Práca: Babincová, M., Altanerová, V., Altaner, Č., Čičmanec, P. & Babinec, P. (2004) In vivo heating of magnetic nanoparticles in alternating magnetic field", Medical physics, 31(8), 2219-2221.

Citation: Berry, C. C.: Progress in functionalization of magnetic nanoparticles for applications in biomedicine. In: Journal of Physics D, Vol. 42, No. 22, 2009, Art. No. 224003 - SCI ; SCOPUS

Práca: Babincová, M., Leszczynska, D., Sourivong, P., Čičmanec, P., & Babinec, P. (2001). Superparamagnetic gel as a novel material for electromagnetically induced hyperthermia. Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials, 225(1-2), 109-112.

Citation: Lee, N. - Yoo, D. - Ling, D. - Cho, M. H. - Hyeon, T. - Cheon, J.: Iron oxide based nanoparticles for multimodal imaging and magnetoresponsive therapy. In: Chemical Reviews, Vol. 115, No. 19, 2015, s. 10637-10689 - SCI ; SCOPUS

Práca: Babincova, M., Altanerova, V., Bergemann, C., & Babinec, P. (2008). In vitro analysis of cisplatin functionalized magnetic nanoparticles in combined cancer chemotherapy and electromagnetic hyperthermia. IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, 7(1), 15-19.

Citation: Mortezaee, K. - Narmani, A. - Salehi, M. - Bagheri, H. - Farhood, B. - Haghi-Aminjan, H. - Najafi, M.: Synergic effects of nanoparticles-mediated hyperthermia in radiotherapy/chemotherapy of cancer. In: Life Sciences, Vol. 269, 2021,Art. No. 119020 - SCI ; SCOPUS

Práca: Altanerova, U., Babincova, M., Babinec, P., Benejova, K., Jakubechova, J., Altanerova, V., Altaner, C. (2017). Human mesenchymal stem cell-derived iron oxide exosomes allow targeted ablation of tumor cells via magnetic hyperthermia. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 12, 7923.

Citation: Sancho-Albero, M. - Medel-Martínez, A. - Martín-Duque, P.: Use of exosomes as vectors to carry advanced therapies. In: RSC Advances, vol. 10, no. 40, 2020, s. 23975-23987 - SCI ; SCOPUS

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

Kombinácia magnetickej separácie a elektroporácie pre efektívnu transfekciu buniek (Zodpovedný riešiteľ) / Combination of magnetic separation and electroporation for effective cell transfection (Co-Principal Investigator) [VEGA - 1/0639/22]

Štruktúra a reaktivita aptamérov a vybraných molekulových systémov v patologickej forme priónov (zástupca zodpovedného riešiteľa)/

Structure and reactivity of aptamers and selected molecular systems in the pathological form of prions v [APVV 16-0600].

Využitie fyzikálnych metód a magnetických nanočastíc na efektívny prenos nukleových kyselín do bunky (Zodpovedný riešiteľ)) / Applications of physical methods and magnetic nanoparticles for effective delivery of nucleic acid into cells (Principal Investigator) [VEGA - 1/0810/18]

Využitie magnetických nanočastíc na cielenie, hypertermiu a kontrolovateľné uvoľňovanie liečiv a génov / Applications of magnetic nanoparticles for targeting, hyperthermia, and controlled drug and gene release (Principal Investigator) [VEGA - 1/0970/15 ]

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position	VII.b - Name of the institution, board	VII.c - Duration
Chairman of the Biophysics section SSC	FMPH CU	1998-now
Chairman of dissertation committe in Biophysics	FMPH CU	2022-
Member	Scientific coouncil of FMPH	2023-

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution	VIII.b - Address of the institution	VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay)	VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Munich University LMU	Munich, Germany	1995-1996	Postdoctoral fellowship
Florida State University	Tallahaasee, Florida, USA	2001-2002	Postdoctoral fellowship
Techanical University TUM	Munich, Germany	2006-2007	Postdoctoral fellowship

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update

2025-05-23

Name and surname:	prof. RNDr. Melánia Babincová, DrSc.
Document type:	Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:	Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:	Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava