ANATOMY 1 Name of the Department: Department ... - Biomeedikum

SECTION I: APPENDIXES
Tartu as a physician; (6) September 1993 - January 1998 University of Tartu, Faculty of Medicine, Department
of Pharmacology, postgraduate student. Academic degrees:(1) Physician (M.D.), June 1993,
University of Tartu (2) Doctor of medical sciences (Ph.D.), June 3rd, 1998 (cum laude), University of
Tartu Employment and professional experience: (1)1989-1991 and 1992-1993 part-time nurse in
Tartu Psychiatric Hospital, Children’s Department. (2) 1993-1997 part-time assistant, Department of
Pharmacology, University of Tartu (3) 1997-1998 assistant, Department of Pharmacology, University
of Tartu (4) 1999 senior assistant, Department of Pharmacology, University of Tartu (5) 1999-2000
postdoctoral fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Tartu (6) March 1999 – March 2000
post-doc researcher, Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Pharmacy, University
of Helsinki, Finland (7) – 2001 senior teaching assistant, Department of Pharmacology, University of
Tartu Administrative experience: (1) Member of Organizing Committee of the Rudolf Buchheim
Conference in Neuropharmacology (May, 1995). Honours and awards: (1) Winner of the scholarship
of the “Ants and Maria Silvere and Sigfried Pant Memorial Scholarship at Tartu University Foundation”,
1997 (2) The European Neuropeptide Club Award, 1997 (3) 3rd student prize of the competition organised
by The Ministry of Education, The Republic of Estonia, 1997 (4) Lundbeck Eesti AS 1998
award of psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry (5) European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
(ECNP) Fellowship Award 2000, presented in Munich, Germany at the 13th Congress of
ECNP (6) Poster prize at the 2nd Baltic Regional Meeting in Biological Psychiatry Vilnius, Lithuania,
2000 Memberships: (1) Member of Estonian Pharmacological Society, Estonian Laboratory Animal
Science Association (member of the Board, 1997-1998), (3) Estonian Society of Biological Psychiatry
(secretary from 2000) Current research program and grants: collaborator in following scientific projects:
The mechanism of affective disorders and the kinetic and mechanism of action of the novel antidepressants,
principal investigator chair of pharmacology, Professor L. Allikmets (2) Grant 3379: Elucidation
of the mechanism of anxiogenic/anxiolytic action of antidepressants, principal investigator
chair of pharmacology, Professor L. Allikmets Supervision of dissertations: (1) 2000, Bachelor’s
dissertation: Ruth Rudissaar, “The role of 5-HT3 receptors in apomorphine-induced aggressive behaviour
in rats” Publications: Peer-reviewed international full-lengths articles (incl. Accepted papers):
31 Peer-reviewed Estonian full-lengths articles (incl. accepted papers): 3 Conference abstracts: 43
KIVASTIK, TOOMAS Present position: senior teaching assistant (temporarily at 0.5 staff); Department of
Pharmacology, University of Tartu, Project manager, Clinicum, University of Tartu Date of birth:
31.01.1965 Gender: male Citizenship: Estonian Address: Ravila 19, 51014 Tartu, Estonia Educational
history: 1983 Tartu Secondary School N 5 1984 – 1991 Medical Faculty of the University of
Tartu, Medical doctor upon graduation 1991 – 1996 Postgraduate studies at the Department of Pharmacology,
University of Tartu, During 1992 – 1994 worked alltogether 9 months in the Division of
Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki (Finland) as a visiting
postgraduate student – 1999 post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division
of Alcohol and Drug Dependence Research, Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden); Academic
degrees: PhD, 1996, University of Tartu Employment and professional experience: to 2000 –
teaching assistant at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Tartu; March 2000 to present –
senior teaching assistant at the Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Tartu September 2000 to present
– project manager of the feasibility study of Tartu University Clinicum Administrative experience:
project manager of the feasibility study of Tartu University Clinicum (September 2000 to present)
Honours and awards: Membership in academic and scientific societies: Estonian Society of
Pharmacology, Estonian Society of Biological Psychiatry, Society for Neuroscience Current research
programs and grants: Mechanisms of drug addiction: role of brain dopaminergic glutamatergic and
GABA-ergic systems. Current grants: one Supervision of dissertations: none Publications: articles
– 10; abstracts 20
ZHARKOVSKAJA, TAMARA docent of Department of Pharmacology 2. Date of birth:10th February 1954,
Irkutsk province, Russian Federation 3. Gender: Female 4. Citizenship: Estonia 5. Address: Tartu,
Pohla 13-2 6. Educational history: Secondary School of Sheberta Medical Institute of Irkutsk, Faculty
of Pharmacy, 1976 7. Academic degrees (with year and university): PhD 1982, Department of Pharmacology
8. Employment and professional experience: Postgraduate fellowship 1976-1980 Scientific
researcher of Institute of General and Molecular Pathology 1980-1985 Senior assistant of the Department
of Pharmacology 1985-1988, docent from 1988 9. Administrative experience: Participating in
organizing scientific conferences 10. Honours and awards: - 11. Membership in academic and scientific
societies: Estonian Society of Pharmacology 12. Current research program and grants:
Estonian Science Foundation: “New perspectives in pharmacology of neurodegenerative disorders.
Ministry of Education: “Drug dependence and neuronal death. Molecular mechanisms and pharmacological
prevention ". Ministry of Education: "The mechanism of neuroprotective action of dehydroepiandrosterone"
European Union: "Progressive myoclonic epilepsy and neuronal apoptosis. A genetic,
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