I lead a senior group leader at the CEITEC Masaryk University and at University Hospital Brno. I am most interested in the microenvironmental interactions of CLL and lymphoma B cells, especially B-T cell interactions and B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling. I conducted post-doctoral work with Prof. Thomas Kipps (Univ. California-San Diego) and in Brno and contributed to the understanding of CLL cell migration and regulation, function, and targeting of CD20. In 2014 I was awarded the EHA Non-Clinical Research Award, and in 2018, the prestigious ERC grant.
I was born in Brno, I studied general medicine and molecular biology at Masaryk University, and I very much appreciate the opportunity to get such a comprehensive education. After several years of working in the USA at the University of San Diego and Mayo Clinic, I returned to Brno and was able to start my own research group at the CEITEC of Masaryk University and the Internal Hematology and Oncology Clinic of the Brno University Hospital.
Brno is the best place to live in the Czech Republic. Need I add anything? Anyway, my favorite things in Brno are the dam, the vineyards, and the JazzfestBrno festival.