Brázda Václav, prof. Mgr., Ph.D.

Education:

• 1994 – graduated in Molecular Biology and Genetic, Faculty of Science Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
• 2001 – receiving Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology and Genetic, Faculty of Science Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
• 2016 – habilitation in Molecular Biology and Genetic, Faculty of Science Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
• 2022 - full professor recognition, signed by the President of the Czech Republic

Employment:

• 1995 – 2000 – research assistant at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2000 – 2004 – researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2005 – 2006 – post-doctoral research fellowship, University Health Network, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada
• 2007 –  2009  –  independent researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• since 2010 – leading researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2016 – 2022 associate professor at the Fakulty of chemistry Brno University of Technology
• since 2022 - full professor at the Fakulty of chemistry Brno University of Technology

Research topics:

• relationship between DNA structure and function
• interaction of proteins with DNA
• local DNA structures and DNA damage
• p53 protein and carcinogenesis
• bioinformatics
• immunology and neurodegeneration
• published> 100 papers (2023: 116 entries on WoS; 2086 citations, h-index 26)
• co-author of the web-service:  bioinformatics.ibp.cz, palindromes.ibp.cz

Publications:

• Research ID profile
• Google scholar

Awards:

• League Against Cancer Prague Award for the young scientist, author of the best publications with oncology theme (2000)
• Czech Society for Biochemistry and Molecular biology Award for significant scientific contribution in biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology (2002)
• Young European Investigator Award za Českou republiku za nejlepší práci – Medesa/Eppendorf (2002)
• Cena Nature Cell Biology – Poster Competition, 4th Dubrovnik Signaling Conference, Cavtat, Croatia (2004)
• Otto Wichterle Award (award of Academy of Sciences CR for excellent results) (2006)
• International Society for Neurochemistry Investigator Travel Award (2013)
• The Royal Society of Edinburgh - International Awards programme (2018)

International experience:

• 2005 – 2006  post-doctoral research fellowship, University Health Network, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Kanada
• 2015 the main organizer of the international workshop about p53
• a number of shorter internships – Toronto, Trento, Petrohrad, Dundee
• experience in teaching and lecturing during Erasmus stays – Trento, Norwich, Marburg
• 2020 Co-Organizer of the Symposium: Beginning of a new era for investigation of DNA-protein systems, Biophysical society of Japan annual meeting, Gunma, Japan

Memberships:

• Czech Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ČSBMB)
• Czech microscopy society
• International Society for Neurochemistry
• member of the evaluation board 301 - Czech Grant Agentury (2015-2018)

Grants and projects:

• principal investigator (9) or team member (10) in national and international research projects (GAČR, MŠMT, GAAV, NF Neuron)