prof. RNDr. Blanka Říhová, DrSc.

1964 – MSc., Faculty of Science (FS), Charles University; 1966 – RNDr., FS, Charles University, Prague; 1969 – PhD, Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (CSAS), Prague; 1993 – DSc, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; 1993 – visiting Professor at Paris-North University, France (1 month); 1993 – Associate Professor of Immunology, Charles University; 2001 – Professor of Immunology, Charles University, Prague; 2000 – Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.

From 1964 – Institute of Microbiology CSAS, Department of Immunology; 1974–1989 Principal Research Officer; 1989–1990 Leading Research Scientist; 1990–2006 Head of Laboratory of Humoral Immunity; 2000–2007 director, 2007–2009 deputy director, 2007 – present head of Division of Immunology and Gnotobiology; 1994–2000 member of Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; from 1994 – present Adjunct member of the College of Physiology and Developmental Biology, FS, Charles University, Prague. She has been involved in research in the field of immunology, genetic, experimental oncology, microbiology, toxicology (publications: 161, Citation index: 2 073x, H-index: 26).

Memberships: Czech Immunological Society 2005 (from 2006 President); 2005 – present Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, elected foreign member of the Academy; 2004 – present European Cell Proliferation Society; 2003 – present Schweizerische Ärztegesellschaft für Magnetfeldenerglieregulation- und therapie (SAMET); 2002 – present European Academy of Sciences, elected member; 2001 – present American Association for Cancer Research, member; 2001 – present American Diabetes Association, member; 1996 – present Czech Learned Society, elected member; 1995 – present Controlled Release Society, member; member of committee for the CRS Jorge Heller JCR Best Paper Award; member of committee for the CRS “Nagai Award”; 1994–2000 Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, member; 1993 – present Society for Leukocyte Biology (International Relations Committee); 1985 – present International Society for Molecular Recognition, member; 1982 – present Committee of the IUPAC working group “Interaction of Polymers with Living Systems”, member. Awards: 2005 – Medal of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic; 2005 – Medal of the “Česká hlava”, Award for the invention in the field of Polymeric drugs; 2005 – Medal of the Faculty of Science, Charles University; 2004 – Prof. Dr. Wolf A. Kafka Verdienstmedaille; 2000 – Medal of the Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand; 1997 – Distinquished Leadership Award, American Biographical Institute; 1994 – Member of Sigma Xi; 1987 – J. E. Purkinje Medal for achievements in biology, CSAS.