Charles University, Prague
Pavla Jendelová received her Master’s degree in natural sciences (biology) from Charles University in Prague in 1988, then she did her doctoral research in neurophysiology at the Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine, where she received her PhD in 1999. As a postdoctoral researcher she shifted her research interest to the use of stem cells in neuroregeneration. Subsequently, she was appointed head of the laboratory in 2002 and later head of the department (2016). Her team studies mechanisms of CNS diseases, brain and spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative diseases. She collaborates with chemists to develop polymers that promote regeneration of injured tissues and to develop materials for targeted drug delivery to glioblastoma and in vivo imaging. Together with Professor James Fawcett at the University of Cambridge, she directs the Centre for Reconstructive Neuroscience, focusing on regeneration of neural tissue using viral vectors for gene transfer and extracellular matrix manipulation. More recently, she has coordinated the Centre of Excellence for Regenerative Medicine, which brings together experts in biology, chemistry and materials science to restore tissues whose damage cannot yet be treated or whose regenerative capacity is severely limited. This includes damage to nervous tissue in the brain and spinal cord, including issues of neurodegeneration and retinal degeneration. Other important issues are the replacement of small-diameter blood vessels, active healing of chronic wounds and osteochondral defects, which are also among the serious problems of modern civilised society.
Mason Eye Institute, USA
Rajiv Mohan is a professor of ophthalmology and molecular medicine at the School of Medicine. He is also director of MU’s Ophthalmology One-Health One-Medicine Research Program and director of resident research at the Mason Eye Institute
Mohan has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and has presented his work at national and international eye research conferences. In 2014, he was named a Silver Fellow by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the largest eye and vision research organization in the world
Croatia
Ana Dimova is part of the team of the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Special Hospital of St. Katarina since 2021, where she participates in the work of the proctology clinic and surgery (examinations, diagnostics, treatment, and operative procedures).
Her narrower field of interest is coloproctological surgery with an emphasis on oncological and narrower proctological pathology. She has extensive experience in one-day surgery, in which he performs the majority of proctological and inguinal/umbilical/epigastric hernia operations.
She is a regular and award-winning guest and lecturer at professional meetings and congresses of abdominal surgery and proctology and co-author of several international prospective studies in the field of emergency surgical conditions.
