People

Name Weber Jan
Position Head of the Research Service Group

Jan Weber, Ph.D.

Head of the Team


Virology
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR, v.v.i.
Flemingovo nám. 2, CZ-166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Phone: (+420) 220 183 420

 
Education
1993-2001 Ph.D. (CSc.) in biochemistry under supervision of Dr. Jan Konvalinka Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Science of Czech Republic, Prague.
1988-1993 M.Sc. in biochemistry under supervision of Dr. Iva Pichová, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Faculty of Sciences.
 
Experience
2001-2004 Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Miguel E. Qui?ones-Mateu, Department of Virology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
2000-2001 Training in the National Reference Laboratory on AIDS, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, headed by Dr. Marie Brůčková, Ph.D.
1995 (1 month) Training in the laboratory of Dr. Hans-Georg Kräusslich in German Centre for Cancer research, Heidelberg.
 
Appointments
since 2011 Head of the Virology Research-Service Team, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Prague.
2007-2011 Assistant director (from 2008), Associate director (from 2010) Research and development. HIV Program. Diagnostic HYBRIDS, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
2007 (4 months) Research Associate in Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Sponsored Research Agreement with Diagnostic HYBRIDS, Inc.
2004-2006 Research associate in Department of Molecular Genetics - Section Virology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
2001-2004 Postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Miguel E. Quinones-Mateu in Department of Virology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
1993-2001 Ph.D. student in Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (1993-1997 in the laboratory of Retroviral Proteins, headed by Dr. Iva Pichová and 1997-2001 in the laboratory of Proteases from Human Pathogens, headed by Dr. Jan Konvalinka.
 
Research interest

HIV inhibition, resistance, fitness and pathogenesis.