Awards and Honours

2012

 

Václav Pačes

The degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague

Matyáš Šíma 1st Michael Boubelík Award for publication:
Síma M, Havelková H, Quan L, Svobodová M, Jarošíková T, Vojtíšková J, Stassen AP, Demant P, Lipoldová M.: Genetic control of resistance to Trypanosoma brucei brucei infection in mice. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011 Jun;5(6):e1173.(Detail)
Team of authors (from IMG): IMG Prize for the best publication in 2011– category original scientific communication
Petr Dráber, Ivana Vonková, Ondřej Štěpánek, Matouš Hrdinka, Markéta Kucová, Tereza Skopcová, Pavel Otáhal, Pavla Angelisová, Václav Hořejší 1st position:
Draber P, Vonkova I, Stepanek O, Hrdinka M, Kucova M, Skopcova T, Otahal P, Angelisova P, Horejsi V, Yeung M, Weiss A, Brdicka T. SCIMP, a transmembrane adaptor protein involved in major histocompatibility complex class II signaling. Mol Cell Biol 2011 31(22):4550-62.
Kateřina Trejbalová, Jana Blažková, Magda Matoušková, Dana Kučerová, Lubomíra Pecnová, Jiří Hejnar 2nd position:
Trejbalová K, Blazková J, Matousková M, Kucerová D, Pecnová L, Vernerová Z, Herácek J, Hirsch I, Hejnar J. Epigenetic regulation of transcription and splicing of syncytins, fusogenic glycoproteins of retroviral origin. Nucleic Acids Res 2011 39(20): 8728-39.
Matouš Hrdinka, Petr Dráber, Ondřej Štěpánek, Tereza Ormsby, Pavel Otáhal, Pavla Angelisová, Tomáš Brdička, Jan Pačes, Václav Hořejší, Karel Drbal 3rd position:
Hrdinka M, Dráber P, Stepánek O, Ormsby T, Otáhal P, Angelisová P, Brdicka T, Paces J, Horejsí V, Drbal K. PRR7 Is a Transmembrane Adaptor Protein Expressed in Activated T Cells Involved in Regulation of T Cell Receptor Signaling and Apoptosis. J Biol Chem 2011 286(22): 19617-29.

2011

Milan Reiniš The CIMT 2011 Poster Award Improving Immunity
Marie Lipoldová ARPA-CIS „Prof. Milan Pospíšil” Award 2011 – 2nd position (Publication: Lipoldová, M. – Havelková, H. – Badalová, J. – Vojtíšková, J. – Quan, L. – Krulová, M. – Sohrabi, Y. – Stassen, A. P. – Demant, P.: Loci controlling lymphocyte production of interferon γ after alloantigen stimulation in vitro and their co-localization with genes controlling lymphocyte infiltration of tumors and tumor susceptibility. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy. Vol. 59, No. 2 (2010), pp. 203-213.)
Zuzana Hájková Prize of the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague, for the best diploma thesis.
Petr Heneberg Prize of the Czech Immunological Society for the best scientific publication for young immunologists (awarded publication: Heneberg P, Dráberová, L. – Bambousková, M. – Pompach, P. – Dráber, P.: Down-regulation of protein-tyrosine phosphatases activates an immune receptor in the absence of its translocation into lipid rafts. J Biol Chem. Roč. 285, č. 17 (2010), s. 12787-12802)
Lab. of J. Bártek (Zdeněk Hodný, Lenka Rossmeislová, Hana Hanzlíková, Kateřina Krejčíková, Markéta Vančurová) Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for achieving outstanding research results of major scientific importance – for scientific publication: The role of PML in cellular senescence.
Jarmila Hnilicová Josef Hlávka Award for the best students and graduates of Prague public universities, Technical University Brno, and young talented researchers of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Libor Macůrek Otto Wichterle award for outstanding young scientists
Team of authors (from IMG): IMG Prize for the best publication in 2010 – category review
Jiří Bártek, Zdeněk Hodný 1st position:
Bartek J, Hodný Z. SUMO boosts the DNA damage response barrier against cancer.
Cancer Cell 2010 17(1): 9-11. PubMed.
Petr Svoboda, Matyáš Flemr 2nd position:
Svoboda P, Flemr M. The role of miRNAs and endogenous siRNAs in maternal-to-zygotic reprogramming and the establishment of pluripotency. EMBO Rep 2010 11(8): 590-597. PubMed.
Petr Svoboda 3rd position:
Svoboda P. Why mouse oocytes and early embryos ignore miRNAs? RNA Biol 2010 7(5): 559-563. – Point of view. PubMed.
Team of authors (from IMG): IMG Prize for the best publication in 2010– category original scientific communication
Martina Huranová, David Staněk 1st position:
Huranová M, Ivani I, Benda A, Poser I, Brody Y, Hof M, Shav-Tal Y, Neugebauer KM, Staněk D. The differential interaction of snRNPs with pre-mRNA reveals splicing kinetics in living cells. J Cell Biol 2010 191(1): 75-86. PubMed.
Matyáš Flemr, Radek Malík, Petr Svoboda 2nd position:
Ma J, Flemr M, Stein P, Berninger P, Malík R, Zavolan M, Svoboda P, Schultz RM. MicroRNA activity is suppressed in mouse oocytes. Curr Biol 2010 20(3): 265-270. PubMed.
Vladimír Čermák, Jan Kosla, Jiří Plachý, Kateřina Trejbalová, Jiří Hejnar, Michal Dvořák 3rd position:
Čermák V, Kosla J, Plachý J, Trejbalová K, Hejnar J, Dvořák M. The transcription factor EGR1 regulates metastatic potential of v-src transformed sarcoma cells. Cell Mol Life Sci 2010 67(20): 3557-3568. PubMed.

2010

Libor Macůrek Otto Wichterle award for outstanding young scientists
Jiří Bártek Neuron 2010 – for life-long merits in medicine – Karel Janeček Foundation
Martina Huranová Josef Hlávka Award for the best students and graduates of Prague public universities, Technical University Brno, and young talented researchers of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Jan Svoboda National Prize of the Czech Government „Česká hlava“ (Czech Brains)
Ondřej Mihola Arnold Beckman Prize
for the best publication in the field of Genetics.

PubMed
Václav Pačes Medal of Emil Votoček (awarded by the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague)
Ondřej Mihola Scopus Award for year 2009 awarded by the prominent scientific publisher
Elsevier BV (see detail)
Team of authors (from IMG): IMG Prize for the best publication in 2009 – category original scientific communication
Ondřej Mihola, Zdeněk Trachtulec, Čestmír Vlcek, Jiří Forejt 1st position:
Mihola O, Trachtulec Z, Vlcek C, Schimenti JC, Forejt J.
A mouse speciation gene encodes a meiotic Histone H3 methyltransferase.
Science 2009;323:373-375. PubMed

Martina Huranová, Jarmila Hnilicová, Branislav Fleischer, Zuzana Cvačková, David Staněk

2nd position:
Huranová M, Hnilicová J, Fleischer B, Cvačková Z, Staněk D. A mutation linked to retinitis pigmentosa in HPRP31 causes protein instability and impairs its interactions with spliceosomal snRNPs. Hum Mol Genet. 2009;18:2014-2023. PubMed

Petr Pajer, Vít Karafiát, Vladimír Pečenka, Dana Průková, Jiří Plachý, Michal Dvořák

3rd position: Pajer P, Karafiát V, Pečenka V, Průková D, Dudlová J, Plachý J,
Kašparová P, Dvořák M. Industasis, a promotion of tumor formation by nontumorigenic stray cells. Cancer Res. 2009;69:4605-4612. PubMed

Team of authors (from IMG): IMG Prize for the best publication in 2009 – category review
Pavel, Vopálenský, Zbyněk Kozmik 1st position:
Vopálenský P, Kozmik Z. Eye evolution: common use and independent recruitment of genetic components. Phil Trans Roy Soc B – Biol Sci. 2009;364:2819-2832. PubMed
Jiří Bártek 2nd position:
Jackson SP, Bartek J. The DNA-damage response in human biology and disease. Nature. 2009;461:1071-1078. PubMed