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February 2025 in Science at our faculty
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Academics from our faculty were awarded with Honorary recognition of the Minister of Health for medical research and development
On 7 June, the awards ceremony of the Minister of Health for Medical Research and Development took place in the auditorium of Michna Palace. Among the awardees are also academics from the Faculty of Medicine of MU.
Honorary recognition of the Minister of Health for medical research and development for 2021 was awarded to Prof. David Šmajs, M.D., Ph.D., who is the head of the research group at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, MU. He received the award for his project Development of a new typing system for the causative agent of syphilis, treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, focusing on proteomic differences. The aim of the project is to develop a new molecular typing system for the characterization of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum strains that cause syphilis. The project has produced 16 original manuscripts, all of which have been published in journals with an IF, and the cumulative IF of these journals is greater than 58. Scientists from other departments of the Faculty of Medicine, the National Institute of Public Health and the General University Hospital in Prague participated in the project.
Another award winner was prof. Tomáš Novotný, M.D., Ph.D. from the Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology of the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospital Brno. The project Clinical significance and electrophysiological evaluation of the C.926CT mutation of the KCNQ1 gene (P.T3091) as a possible "Founder Mutation" of the long QT interval syndrome also received an honorary mention from the Minister of Health. The main aim of the project was to determine whether the mutation under study is indeed the cause of the clinical manifestations observed in patients. It is a unique manifestation in the Czech Republic, which allowed the identification of individuals in the Czech population affected by the same hereditary disorder of the electrical activity of the heart, clarification of the mechanism of this disorder and the design of a possible new, previously unused treatment. Scientists from other departments of the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy and Palacký University in Olomouc participated in the project.
