1. Current status, position

• Oncology pharmacist at the National Cancer Institute, Pharmacy Department, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Director of the Pharmacy Institute at the Slovak Health University, Bratislava, Slovakia

2. Education

Juraj Sykora studied pharmacy at the Comenius University of Bratislava and obtained his pharmacist diploma in 1983. From 1983 to 1989, he worked as clinical pharmacist in the National Institute for Respiratory Diseases in Bratislava. From 1987 to 1994, he worked as a hospital pharmacist and junior lecturer in the University Hospital akademika Derera and in the Postgraduate Medical School in Bratislava. From 1994 to 2005, he worked as director of hospital pharmacy in National Cancer Institute in Bratislava. From 2005 to 2007, he worked in Pharmacy Department of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic. Then, from 2007, he works as a hospital pharmacist in National Cancer Institute and as a director of Pharmacy Institute at the Slovak Health University. During his career he hold several lectures and published several articles concerning pharmacy.

Juraj Sykora is the president of the Section of Hospital Pharmacists of the Slovak Chamber of Pharmacists, is member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy and, since 2007, he is member of the EAHP board (European Association of Hospital Pharmacists).

3. Research area

Dr. Sykora published more then 40 articles and hold more then 100 lectures. The topics cover basic pharmacology research in potential anti-inflammatory drugs, stability of infusion mixtures and hospital pharmacy.