Valko-Rokytovská Marcela, M.A., PhD
Research/art/teacher profile
Date of last update: 15.09.2026
I. Basic information
| I.1 Surname |
Valko-Rokytovská |
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| I.2 Given name |
Marcela |
| I.3 Degrees |
M.A., PhD |
| I.4 Year of birth |
1980 |
| I.5 Name of the workplace |
University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| I.6 Address of the workplace |
Komenského 73, 041 81 Košice, Slovak Republic |
| I.7 Position |
lecturer |
| I.8 E-mail address | marcela.valkorokytovska@uvlf.sk |
| I.9 University staff register / partner university profile | https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/20449 |
| I.11 ORCID iD | 0000-0003-1614-460X |
II. Higher education and further qualification growth
| Institution | Year | Study field and programme | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First degree higher education | Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach | 2003 | chémia |
| Second degree higher education | Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice | 2005 | chemistry |
| Third degree higher education | Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice | 2013 | clinical biochemistry |
III. Current and previous employment
| Occupation | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
Assistant professor | University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice | 2013 – 2026 |
IV. Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills
| Activity | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 |
V. Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university
Academic year: 2026/2027
V.1. Overview of taught profile courses
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V.2. Responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of study programmes
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V.3. Responsibility for the development and quality of habilitation and inauguration fields
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V.4. Overview of supervised theses
| Bachelor | Master | Doctoral | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currently supervised theses | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Defended theses | 1 | 15 | 0 |
V.5. Overview of other taught courses
| Course | Study programme | Degree | Study field |
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Biochemistry | Feed and Foodstuff Safety – full-time study, Slovak language | I. | Veterinary Medicine |
Biochemistry | Feed and Foodstuff Safety – full-time study, Slovak language | I. | Veterinary Medicine |
Biochemistry | Feed and Foodstuff Safety – part-time study, Slovak language | I. | Veterinary Medicine |
Biochemistry | Feed and Foodstuff Safety – part-time study, Slovak language | I. | Veterinary Medicine |
Biochemistry | Pharmacy (joint study programme with UPJŠ) – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Pharmacy |
Biochemistry | Pharmacy (joint study programme with UPJŠ) – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Pharmacy |
Clinical and pathological biochemistry | Pharmacy (joint study programme with UPJŠ) – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Pharmacy |
Clinical and pathological biochemistry | Pharmacy (joint study programme with UPJŠ) – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Pharmacy |
Biochemistry | Pharmacy – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Pharmacy |
Clinical and pathological biochemistry | Pharmacy – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Pharmacy |
Biochemistry I. | Food hygiene – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
Biochemistry II. | Food hygiene – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
Clinical biochemistry | Food hygiene – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
Clinical biochemistry | Food hygiene – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
Biochemistry | General Veterinary Medicine – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
Biochemistry I. | General Veterinary Medicine – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
Biochemistry II. | General Veterinary Medicine – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
Clinical biochemistry | General Veterinary Medicine – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
Clinical biochemistry | General Veterinary Medicine – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
Xenobiochemistry | General Veterinary Medicine – full-time study, Slovak language | I. + II. | Veterinary Medicine |
VI. Overview of research/artistic/other outputs
The last six completed calendar years: 2020–2025. The current year is excluded.
VI.1. Overview of research/artistic/other outputs and citations
| Total | Over the last six years | |
|---|---|---|
| VI.1.1 Number of research/artistic/other outputs | 57 | 19 |
| VI.1.2 Number of outputs registered in Web of Science or Scopus | 9 | 5 |
| VI.1.3 Number of citations corresponding to research/artistic/other outputs | 124 | 94 |
| VI.1.4 Number of citations registered in Web of Science or Scopus | 117 | 91 |
| VI.1.5 Number of invited lectures at international and national level | 0 | 0 |
VI.2. The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
| 1. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - OČENÁŠ, Peter - SALAYOVÁ, Aneta - KOSTECKÁ, Zuzana. Breast cancer: targeting of steroid hormones in cancerogenesis and diagnostics. In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021. ISSN 1422-0067, Vol. 22, no. 11 (2021), art. no. 5878, p. [1-15]. (2021: 6.208 - IF, 195 - H-index, 6.628 - IF 5y, 1.176 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q1 - JCR Best Q, 1.064 - ABDC). |
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| 2. | BIRKOVÁ, Anna - VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - HUBKOVÁ, Beáta - ZÁBAVNÍKOVÁ, Marianna - MAREKOVÁ, Mária. Strong dependence between Tryptophan-related fluorescence of urine and malignant melanoma. In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021. ISSN 1422-0067, Vol. 22, no. 4 (2021), art. no. 1884, p. [1-11]. (2021: 6.208 - IF, 195 - H-index, 6.628 - IF 5y, 1.176 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q1 - JCR Best Q, 1.064 - ABDC). |
| 3. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - OČENÁŠ, Peter - SALAYOVÁ, Aneta - TITKOVÁ, Radka - KOSTECKÁ, Zuzana. Specific urinary metabolites in canine mammary gland tumors. In: Journal of Veterinary Science. 2020. ISSN 1229-845X, Vol. 21, no. 2 (2020), art. no. 23, p. [1-10]. (2020: 1.672 - IF, 47 - H-index, 1.904 - IF 5y, 0.547 - SJR, Q2 - SJR Best Q, Q2 - JCR Best Q, 0.418 - ABDC). |
| 4. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - HUBKOVÁ, Beáta - BIRKOVÁ, Anna - MAŠLANKOVÁ, Jana - STUPÁK, Marek - ZÁBAVNÍKOVÁ, Marianna - ČIŽMÁROVÁ, Beáta - MAREKOVÁ, Mária. Specific urinary metabolites in malignant melanoma [Špecifické metabolity v moči pri malígnom melanóme]. In: Medicina. 2019. ISSN 1010-660X, Vol. 55, no. 5(2019), art. no. 145, p. [1-10]. (2019: 1.205 - IF, 32 - H-index, 1.572 - IF 5y, 0.404 - SJR, Q3 - SJR Best Q, Q3 - JCR Best Q, 0.289 - ABDC). |
| 5. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - BRUCHATÁ, Katarína - ŠIMKOVÁ, Jana - MILKOVIČOVÁ, Mária - KOSTECKÁ, Zuzana. Current trends in the treatment of malignant melanoma [Súčasné trendy v liečbe malígneho melanómu]. In: Neoplasma. 2016. ISSN 0028-2685, Roč. 63, č. 3 (2016), s. 333-341. (2016: 1.871 - IF, 47 - H-index, 1.772 - IF 5y, 0.714 - SJR, Q3 - SJR Best Q, Q4 - JCR Best Q, 0.365 - ABDC). |
VI.3. The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
| 1. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - OČENÁŠ, Peter - SALAYOVÁ, Aneta - KOSTECKÁ, Zuzana. Breast cancer: targeting of steroid hormones in cancerogenesis and diagnostics. In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021. ISSN 1422-0067, Vol. 22, no. 11 (2021), art. no. 5878, p. [1-15]. (2021: 6.208 - IF, 195 - H-index, 6.628 - IF 5y, 1.176 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q1 - JCR Best Q, 1.064 - ABDC). |
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| 2. | BIRKOVÁ, Anna - VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - HUBKOVÁ, Beáta - ZÁBAVNÍKOVÁ, Marianna - MAREKOVÁ, Mária. Strong dependence between Tryptophan-related fluorescence of urine and malignant melanoma. In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021. ISSN 1422-0067, Vol. 22, no. 4 (2021), art. no. 1884, p. [1-11]. (2021: 6.208 - IF, 195 - H-index, 6.628 - IF 5y, 1.176 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q1 - JCR Best Q, 1.064 - ABDC). |
| 3. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - OČENÁŠ, Peter - SALAYOVÁ, Aneta - TITKOVÁ, Radka - KOSTECKÁ, Zuzana. Specific urinary metabolites in canine mammary gland tumors. In: Journal of Veterinary Science. 2020. ISSN 1229-845X, Vol. 21, no. 2 (2020), art. no. 23, p. [1-10]. (2020: 1.672 - IF, 47 - H-index, 1.904 - IF 5y, 0.547 - SJR, Q2 - SJR Best Q, Q2 - JCR Best Q, 0.418 - ABDC). |
| 4. | HUBKOVÁ, Beáta - VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - ČIŽMÁROVÁ, Beáta - ZÁBAVNÍKOVÁ, Marianna - MAREKOVÁ, Mária - BIRKOVÁ, Anna. Tryptophan: its metabolism along the Kynurenine, Serotonin, and Indole pathway in malignant melanoma. In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2022. ISSN 1422-0067, Vol. 23, no. 16 (2022), art. no. 9160, p. [1-17]. (2022: 5.6 - IF, 230 - H-index, 6.2 - IF 5y, 1.154 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q1 - JCR Best Q, 1.028 - ABDC). |
| 5. | OČENÁŠ, Peter - BALOGA, Matej - VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - IVAŠKOVÁ, Sonja. Determination of biochemical and metabolomic characteristics of sheep blood serum and their application in clinical practice. In: Life. 2025. ISSN 2075-1729, Vol. 15, no. 7 (2025) , art. no. 1141, p. [1-14]. (2025: 3.9 - IF, 88 - H-index, 3.9 - IF 5y, 0.869 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q1 - JCR Best Q, 0.759 - ABDC). |
VI.4. The most significant citations corresponding to research/artistic/other outputs
| 1. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - BRUCHATÁ, Katarína - ŠIMKOVÁ, Jana - MILKOVIČOVÁ, Mária - KOSTECKÁ, Zuzana. Current trends in the treatment of malignant melanoma [Súčasné trendy v liečbe malígneho melanómu]. In: Neoplasma. 2016. ISSN 0028-2685, Roč. 63, č. 3 (2016), s. 333-341. (2016: 1.871 - IF, 47 - H-index, 1.772 - IF 5y, 0.714 - SJR, Q3 - SJR Best Q, Q4 - JCR Best Q, 0.365 - ABDC). [1] YANG, Yanwen - QI, Fazhi - WEI, Chuanyuan - LIU, Jiaqi - ZHANG, Yong - LUAN, Wenjie - GU, Jianying. PSMC2 knockdown suppressed tumor progression of skin cutaneous melanoma. In CELL DEATH DISCOVERY, 2021, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. |
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| 2. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - BRUCHATÁ, Katarína - ŠIMKOVÁ, Jana - MILKOVIČOVÁ, Mária - KOSTECKÁ, Zuzana. Current trends in the treatment of malignant melanoma [Súčasné trendy v liečbe malígneho melanómu]. In: Neoplasma. 2016. ISSN 0028-2685, Roč. 63, č. 3 (2016), s. 333-341. (2016: 1.871 - IF, 47 - H-index, 1.772 - IF 5y, 0.714 - SJR, Q3 - SJR Best Q, Q4 - JCR Best Q, 0.365 - ABDC). [1] ROSERO, Rebecca A. - VILLARES, Gabriel J. - BAR-ELI, Menashe. Protease-activated receptors and other G-protein-coupled receptors: The melanoma connection. In Frontiers in Genetics, 2016-06-15, 7, jUN, pp. |
| 3. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - BRUCHATÁ, Katarína - ŠIMKOVÁ, Jana - MILKOVIČOVÁ, Mária - KOSTECKÁ, Zuzana. Current trends in the treatment of malignant melanoma [Súčasné trendy v liečbe malígneho melanómu]. In: Neoplasma. 2016. ISSN 0028-2685, Roč. 63, č. 3 (2016), s. 333-341. (2016: 1.871 - IF, 47 - H-index, 1.772 - IF 5y, 0.714 - SJR, Q3 - SJR Best Q, Q4 - JCR Best Q, 0.365 - ABDC). [1] KWON, Ji Young - SEO, Ji Ye - KIM, Tae Yun - LEE, Hee Il - JU, Jung Won. First identification and genotyping of enterocytozoon bieneusi and prevalence of encephalitozoon intestinalis in patients with acute diarrhea in the republic of korea. In Pathogens, 2021-11-01, 10, 11, pp. |
| 4. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - BRUCHATÁ, Katarína - ŠIMKOVÁ, Jana - MILKOVIČOVÁ, Mária - KOSTECKÁ, Zuzana. Current trends in the treatment of malignant melanoma [Súčasné trendy v liečbe malígneho melanómu]. In: Neoplasma. 2016. ISSN 0028-2685, Roč. 63, č. 3 (2016), s. 333-341. (2016: 1.871 - IF, 47 - H-index, 1.772 - IF 5y, 0.714 - SJR, Q3 - SJR Best Q, Q4 - JCR Best Q, 0.365 - ABDC). [1] SHEN, Congcong - HUA, Hui - GU, Lixiong - CAO, Shuanglin - CAI, Hengji - YAO, Xiaodong - CHEN, Xiaodong. Overexpression of RACK1 Predicts Poor Prognosis in Melanoma. In JOURNAL OF CANCER. ISSN 1837-9664, 2020, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 795-803. |
| 5. | VALKO-ROKYTOVSKÁ, Marcela - HUBKOVÁ, Beáta - BIRKOVÁ, Anna - MAŠLANKOVÁ, Jana - STUPÁK, Marek - ZÁBAVNÍKOVÁ, Marianna - ČIŽMÁROVÁ, Beáta - MAREKOVÁ, Mária. Specific urinary metabolites in malignant melanoma [Špecifické metabolity v moči pri malígnom melanóme]. In: Medicina. 2019. ISSN 1010-660X, Vol. 55, no. 5(2019), art. no. 145, p. [1-10]. (2019: 1.205 - IF, 32 - H-index, 1.572 - IF 5y, 0.404 - SJR, Q3 - SJR Best Q, Q3 - JCR Best Q, 0.289 - ABDC). [1] WAKAMATSU, Kazumasa - FUKUSHIMA, Satoshi - MINAGAWA, Akane - OMODAKA, Toshikazu - HIDA, Tokimasa - HATTA, Naohito - TAKATA, Minoru - UHARA, Hisashi - OKUYAMA, Ryuhei - IHN, Hironobu. Significance of 5-S-Cysteinyldopa as a Marker for Melanoma. In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, 2020, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. |
VI.5. Participation in conducting or leading the most important projects over the last six years
| 1. | Scientific grant agency (Ministry of education, science, research and sport of the Slovak Republic) 1/0454/22 – Study of the possibilities of using humic substances in combination with autochthonous probiotic bee lactobacilli to improve the health of honeybees and the quality of bee products. Project period: 2022–2025. |
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| 2. | Cultural and educational grant agency (Ministry of education, science, research and sport of the Slovak Republic) 015UVLF-4/2022 – Innovation of Clinical and Pathological Biochemistry in study programme Pharmacy. Project period: 2022–2024. |
VII. Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities
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VIII. Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study
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IX. Other relevant facts
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