Nóra May

Official name: Nóra May Author name: Nóra Veronika Nagy Mail address: Laboratory of EPR Spectroscopy, PO Box 286., H-1519 Budapest, Hungary Address: Magyar tudósok körútja 2., 1117 Budapest, Hungary Phone: +36-1-3826-616, +36-1-3826-415

2003: Ph.D. in chemistry at the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary 2000: M.Sc. in chemistry at the University of Szeged, Hungary

Present: Senior research fellow at the Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences HAS (former CRC HAS) 2004: Research fellow at the Insitute of Structural Chemistry, Chemical Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (CRC HAS), Budapest, Hungary (senior research fellow since 2010) 2003: Junior research fellow at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Szeged

2007, 2009: Visiting post-doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007 (11 months), 2009 (1 month)

2008-2011: Hungarian Research Foundation (OTKA F67581, 2008-2011) 2007: Poster prize at the 15th Meeting of the Benelux EPR Group, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2007) 2005: Poster prize at the 29th International Conference on Solution Chemistry, Portoroz, Slovenia (2005) 2005: Academic Prize for Young Researchers by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2005) 1998: Scolarship of Szeged Town Council (1998)

English intermediate level French basic level

Application of EPR spectroscopy for the study of paramagnetic transition metal complexes in biologically relevant systems, complexes of small bioactive molecules, oligopeptides and proteins, therapeutic chelators for disease connected with metal accumulation, and contrast agents for medical use.

Music is one of my favourit activity in my spare time. I am a member of the choir Chemical Singers formed at 2003 by the researchers of the Chemical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and also the choir Erkel Ferenc Vegyeskar which is also an amateur group of enthusiastic singers.

Publications 2000-

1. D. Árus, N.V. Nagy, Á. Dancs, A. Jancsó, R. Berkecz, T. Gajda:
   A minimalist chemical model of matrix metalloproteinases — Can small peptides mimic the more rigid metal binding sites of proteins?
   J. Inorg. Biochem. 126 (2013) 61-69.
2. F. Bacher, É.A. Enyedy, N.V. Nagy, A. Rockenbauer, G.M. Bognár, R. Trondl, M.S. Novak, E. Klapproth, T. Kiss, V.B. Arion:
   Copper(II) Complexes with Highly Water-Soluble L- and D-Proline Thiosemicarbazone Conjugates as Potential Inhibitors of Topoisomerase IIα,
   Inorganic Chemistry 52 (2013) 8895-8908.
3. N.V. Nagy, S. Van Doorslaer, T. Szabó-Plánka, S. Van Rompaey, A. Hamza, F. Fülöp, G.K. Tóth, A. Rockenbauer:
   Copper(II)-binding ability of stereoisomeric cis- and trans-2-aminocyclohexanecarboxylic acid – L-phenylalanine dipeptides. A combined CW/pulsed EPR and DFT study,
   Inorganic Chemistry 51 (2012) 1386-1399.
4. A. Lakatos, B. Gyurcsik, N.V. Nagy, Z. Kele, Z. Csendes, Cs. Triznya, L. Fülöp, T. Kiss:
   Histidine-rich branched peptides as Zn(II) and Cu(II) chelators with potential therapeutic application in Alzheimer’s disease,
   Dalton Trans. 41 (2012) 1713-1726.
5. A. Kolozsi, A. Jancsó, N.V. Nagy, T. Gajda:
   N-terminal fragment of the anti-angiogenic human endostatin binds copper(II) with very high affinity,
   J. Inorg. Biochem. 103 (2009) 940-947.
6. N.V. Nagy, T. Szabó-Plánka, A. Rockenbauer, G. Peintler, I. Nagypál, L. Korecz:
   Great Structural Variety of Complexes in Copper(II) - Oligoglycine Systems. Microspeciation and Coordination Modes as Studied by the Two-Dimensional Simulation of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectra,
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125 (2003) 5227-5235.