Ukrainian physiologist to lecture in Canada (09/28/97)

Ukrainian physiologist to lecture in Canada

MONTREAL - Dr. Platon G. Kostyuk, an internationally renowned physiologist and director of the Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, will visit Canada in October under the auspices of the Royal Society of Canada-National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) Exchange Lectureship Program.

Dr. Kostyuk, who works in the field of neuroscience, has carrried out pioneering studies on the role of calcium in neural behavior. He has written over 400 scientific papers and 11 books on his area of expertise. Dr. Kostyuk is vice-president of the NASU and foreign member of several science academies in Europe.

Dr. Kostyuk will give lectures at universities in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary on October 9-23, and will also have the opportunity to meet with Ukrainian Canadian groups in these cities.

The inaugural Ukrainian lecturer under the exchange program was physicist Prof. Anatolii Zagorodny who came to Canada in 1995. This was followed by the visit of Sherbrooke chemist Prof. Andrei Bandrauk to Ukraine in 1996.

The costs for the exchange lectureship program are covered from donations to the Royal Society of Canada-Ukraine Exchange Endowment Fund. The fund-raising committee for the fund is co-chaired by Profs. Jurij Darewych at York University and Lawrence Mysak at McGill University. Dr. Darewych is a physicist and foreign member of the NASU; Dr. Mysak is climate specialist and past president of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada.

A major donation to the fund has come from the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Canadian Foundation.

Tax-deductible donations to the RSC-Ukraine Exchange Fund may be sent to: Sandy Jackson, Administrative and Financial Coordinator, Royal Society of Canada, Suite 308, 225 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1P9; telephone, (613) 991-6990; e-mail, sjackson@rsc.ca

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