The Most Significant Publications

VISNYAIOVÁ, K.; VARGA, I.; FEITSCHEROVÁ, C.; et al. Morphology of the immune cells in the wall of the human uterine tube and their possible impact on reproduction: uterine tube as a possible immune-privileged organ. Frontiers in Cellular and Developmental Biology, 2024, 12: 1325565.

KLEINOVÁ, M.; VARGA, I.; ČEHÁKOVÁ, M.; VALENT, M.; KLEIN, M. Exploring the black box of human reproduction: endometrial organoids and assembloids—generation, implantation modelling and future clinical perspectives. Frontiers in Cellular and Developmental Biology, 2024, 12: 1482054.

VARGA, I.; HAMMER, N.; et al. Terminological discrepancies and novelties in the histological description of the female genital system: proposed amendments for clinical-translational anatomy. Anatomical Sciences International, 2024, 99(4): 469–480.

LAPIDES, L.; VARGA, I.; CSÖBÖNYEIOVÁ, M.; et al. The neglected uterine NK cells, Hamperl cells, endometrial stromal granular cells or K cells: a narrative review from history through histology to medical education. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, 24(16): 12693.

KLEIN, M.; CSÖBÖNYEIOVÁ, M.; DANIŠOVIČ, Ľ.; LAPIDES, L.; VARGA, I. Telocytes in the female reproductive system: up-to-date knowledge, challenges and possible clinical applications. Life, 2022, 12(2): 267.

VARGA, I.; CSÖBÖNYEIOVÁ, M.; VISNYAIOVÁ, K.; et al. Functional morphology of the human uterine tubes in the 21st century: anatomical novelties and their possible clinical applications. Physiological Research, 2022, 71(Suppl. 1): S151–S159.

Professional Activities

Teaching Activities

Teaching Histology and Embryology to undergraduate students of General Medicine and Dentistry in Slovak and English.

Teaching Clinical Embryology and Reproductive Medicine.

Teaching Introduction to Scientific Research to PhD students.

Previous teaching activities in embryology for midwifery students.

Academic and Institutional Leadership

Vice-Dean for Science, Research, PhD Studies and International Relations at the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava.

Head of the Institute of Histology and Embryology.

Former Head of the Institute of Histology and Embryology at the Slovak Medical University.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Faculty of Medicine and former Member of the Scientific Committee of Comenius University.

Research Activities

Research focused on variational anatomy and the development of anatomical and histological terminology.

Study of the development and microscopic anatomy of human lymphoid organs and the female reproductive system.

Investigation of uterine tubes, endometrium, telocytes, reproductive immunology and clinical embryology.

Ultrastructural characterisation of human mesenchymal stem cells from different tissues and their applications in regenerative medicine.

Research into innovations in histology and embryology education.

Clinical Activities

Former Clinical Embryologist at the University Centre for Reproductive Medicine.

Experience in assisted reproductive technologies, in vitro fertilisation, andrology and preimplantation genetic diagnostics.

Editorial Activities

Editor-in-Chief of the Bratislava Medical Journal.

Editorial Board Member of Clinical Anatomy, Medicina, the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology, Anatomy, Revista Argentina de Anatomía Clínica and Morphologicheskie Vedomosti.

Guest Editor of special issues dedicated to anatomical variations and developmental anomalies.

International and Scientific Activities

Coordinator for Histological Terminology within the Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology.

Delegate of the International Committee of Symposia on Clinical and Applied Anatomy and the International Committee of Symposia on Morphological Sciences.

Member of the Advisory Board for the Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy.

President of the 7th International Symposium of Clinical and Applied Anatomy held in Bratislava in 2015.

Awards and Recognition

Recipient of the Jessenius Prize of the Slovak Medical Society.

Recipient of the ESET Science Award for Outstanding University Teacher.

Recipient of the Jaroslav Jirsa Award for the textbook Memorix Histology.

Recipient of several awards from the Slovak Anatomical Society and Comenius University for scientific and publishing activity.