Dr Nazar Vasyliv (MD MSc)
PhD candidate
- Centre for Clinical Brain Scienses
- Affiliation- Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre
Contact details
- Email: N.Vasyliv@sms.ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
49 Little France Crescent - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4SB
- Street
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Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre
School of Cancer Sciences
University of Glasgow
Garscube Estate
Switchback Road - City
- Bearsden
- Post code
- G61 1QH
Background
Dr. Nazar graduated from the Medical University and entered residency at the Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery in Ukraine in 2014. During his neurosurgery training, he was awarded WFNS scull-base fellowship in 2018 under the direction of the world vice-president of the scull-base society Dr Basant K. Misra in Mumbai, India. In addition, he participated in the scientific training of fluorescein-guided tumours at Liv Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, under the direction of Dr. Talat Kiris, and presented two EU projects in Brno, Czech Republic for developing an epilepsy surgery program.
In 2022 Dr Nazar defended an MSc manuscript at the University of Glasgow 'Effect of photodynamic therapy on glioblastoma cell lines under the direction of Dr. Anthony Chalmers, Dr. Karin Williams and Dr. Paul Brennan. He is an active member of the European Society of Photobiology. Currently, his PhD research interests rely on cell death mechanisms in glioblastoma after photodynamic therapy at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences - the University of Edinburgh with the University of Glasgow collaboration at Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre under the supervision of Dr. Paul Brennan, Dr. Anthony Chalmers and Dr. Noor Gammoh.
Invited speaker
Oral communication was presented in Lyon, France at the 20th Congress of the European Society of Photobiology, August 27th-31st. "New outlook on photodynamic therapy for glioblastoma cell lines".