Personal Data
Born on January 14, 1943, in Sofia, Bulgaria; wife Nadia, sons Peter and Pavel.
Current position
Professor of Biochemistry
Comenius University in Bratislava
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Department of Biochemistry
Mlynska dolina CH-1, Ilkovicova 6
842 15 Bratislava 4
Slovak Republic
Phone: +421-2-60296-539
Fax: +421-2-60296-452
E-mail: kolarov@fns.uniba.sk
Academic degrees
- MSc. in Chemistry, Comenius University (1968)
- PhD. in Biochemistry, Comenius University (Supervisor: Prof. L. Kovac)
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry
- DSc. in Molecular Biology
- Professor of Biochemistry
Previous Positions
- 1972-1974: Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University, Bratislava
- 1974-1979: Established Researcher, Cancer Research Institute, Bratislava
- 1980-1988: Senior Scientist, Cancer Research Institute, Bratislava
- 1988-1989: Visiting Professor, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ, USA
- 1990-1993: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University
- 1993-present: Full Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University
- 1995-2000: International Research Scholar of Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Scientific Visits and Sabbaticals
- 1973-1974: Visiting scientist, Institute fur Physiol. Chemie und Physik. Biochemie der Universitat Munchen
- 1979, 1982: Visiting Scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, University of Stockholm
- 1985: Laboratoire d’Enzymologie, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvaine-la-Neuve, Belgium
- 1988-1989: Visiting Professor, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ, USA
Fellowships
- 1974: EMBO Science Fellowship
- 1985: UICC Yamagiva-Yoshida Fellowship
- 1985: FEBS Short Term Fellowship
Awards
- 1982: Diploma #8 for Scientific Discovery “Essential Role of Intramitochondrial ATP” (shared with J. Subik and L. Kovac)
- 1995-2000: Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar
- 2008: Professor Frantisek Patocka Gold Medal of the Czechoslovak Microbiological Society
Scientific interests
Yeast molecular and cell biology; mitochondrial physiology and biogenesis; membrane transport; ADP/ATP carriers; regulation of gene expression by oxygen; apoptosis; aging.