Ruth Tachezy

CUNI

co-investigator

Ruth Tachezy holds an MA in Molecular Biology and Genetics (1987) and Ph.D. in Molecular Virology (1996) from Charles University (CU). She is the founding director of the National Reference Laboratory for Papillomaviruses (since 1998) and the Head of the Department of Genetics and Microbiology (Faculty of Science, CU) where she also leads her own research group. She has held various visiting researcher positions, including at the University of Kuopio in Finland, Yeshiva University in New York, University of Leuven in Belgium. In 2022, she received the CELSA Service to Society Award, along with an Honorable Mention of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic for health research and development. She has supervised many bachelor, master and doctoral students of biomedical programmes and teaches courses at Medical Faculties and at the Faculty of Science at CU. She has held many research grants and since 2023 she has been a principal investigator for CU on the project EU4H, EU4H-2021-PJ4, Delivering a Unified Research Alliance of Biomedical and Public Health Laboratories against Epidemics.

Coordination Board

Zdeněk Hostomský

IOCB

principal investigator

Pavel Plevka

MUNI

co-investigator scientific coordinator

Iva Pichová

IOCB

co-investigator

Robert Vácha

MUNI

co-investigator

Miloš Petřík

UP

co-investigator

Michaela Rumlová

UCT

co-investigator

Jiří Hejnar

IMG

co-investigator

Daniel Růžek

BC

co-investigator

Peter Šebo

IMIC

co-investigator

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