Ladislav Novotny
Former Dean
Kuwait University
Kuwait
Biography
Ladislav Novotny got his Pharm.D. from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and his Ph.D. from Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, in 1984. He also obtained Higher (Special) Qualification in the field of the “Pharmacology and Toxicology of Drugs" from the Institute for the Postgraduate Qualification of Health Care Professionals in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He became a Doctor of Sciences at Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1997. Consequently, he worked at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, at Comenius University in Bratislava and at the Cancer Research Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He spent a substantial amount of time at The University of Texas System Cancer Center M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston, Texas, USA. He served as a Dean at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, from 2003 to 2014. He authored more than 120 original scientific papers, 36 reviews and 7 patents. His scientific work is in area of anticancer agents, experimental cancer therapy and in analysis of properties of various biologically-active compounds.
Research Interest
Pharmacology and Toxicology of Drugs