MD, PhD
Charles University, Czech Republic
Research topics: mucosal immunology, role of microflora in inflammatory diseases, probiotics, gnotobiology, immunopathology of the gut (IBD, celiac disease)
Publication activity: Author or coauthor of 160 papers in international journals and 55 chapters in Czech and English books, co-edit: Adv. Mucosal Immunol., 1995
Sum of Times Cited - 2 480, h-index = 26 (WoS)
Honors: Awards of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, 1981, 1982; Nihon University Medal, Tokyo, 1999; Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic, 2001; Honorary member of the Slovak Immunological Society, 2002; J.E. Purkyne Medal - Czech Acad. Sci., 2006; Medal “Garnet Immunoglobulin” of the Czech Immunological Society, 2006; Member of Royal Society of Arts and Science in Göteborg, 2006
Organizing activities: Member of various international meetings, Member of Council of International Union of Immunological Societies (1996-2003), Member of the External Advisory Group of European Committee (Life Science - infectious diseases) (1999-2005), ISGNAS - Member of the International Study Group on New Antimicrobial Strategies (2005 till now), Member of the Committee of the Czech Immunological Society (1984 till now), Member of the Committee of the Czech Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunology (1992 till now), Member of the Committee of the Czech Society for Probiotics and Prebiotics
Member of Editorial Boards: Faculty 1000 Medicine, Mucosal Immunology, Open Allergy Journal, International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics, Folia Biologica
Education activities: Lecturing in courses of immunology and clinical immunology: 1st Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Natural Science, Charles University, Prague Institute of Postgradual
