16 May 2023
My book shows that cooperation for the good of the whole and other principles that govern the functioning of cells in the human body are meaningful
Jana Šmardová received her RNDr. degree after graduating from Masaryk University’s (MU, earlier known as UJEP) Faculty of Science . Between 1989 and 1993, she worked at the Institute of Entomology of the Academy of Sciences in České Budějovice. In 1991, she moved to the USA for two years, where she worked at the State University of New York. After returning to the Czech Republic, she worked at the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute in Brno from 1996 to 2003, and from 2003 to 2019 she was the head of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory at the Department of Pathology, University Hospital Brno-Bohunice. Since 2005, she has been working at the Faculty of Science MU. After her habilitation in Molecular Biology and Genetics in 2005, she was promoted to the Associate Professor and appointed Professor in 2010. Her scientific work focuses on the study of aberrations in selected molecular mechanisms related to the development of tumours.
