Awards & Grants

Grant funding

Date awardedDescription
10/2021 - 10/2023AARF Fellowship, Alzheimer’s Association
Name of the project: Epigenetic and transcriptomics mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease
01/2019 - 01/2021Young Investigator Award, The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD)
Name of the project: Unraveling the Mechanism Underlying Bipolar Disorder by Integrated

Awards

Date awardedDescription
10/2016Dean’s award for outstanding dissertation thesis
11/2015Best journal paper award · IMIA Yearbook · Category Bioinformatics and Translational Informatics
Award for PredictSNP article ranked among the top 4 articles out of 1,594 articles published and cited in 2014
04/2012Best conference paper award · Student conference EEICT · Category Bioinformatics and Biomedical engineering
Award for conference article “Integration System for Functional Annotation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism”
08/2011Dean’s award for very good study results during master studies and very good knowledge during state final examination
06/2009Dean’s award for very good study results during bachelor studies and very good knowledge during state final examination

Selected finalist participation

DateDescription
03/2020Finalist of Charleston conference on Alzheimer’s disease grant competition
04/2016Finalist of Joseph fourier prize for computer sciences · French Embassy at Prague

Our work in media

DateMediaDescription
01/2025Medical XpressLargest study on the genetics of bipolar disorder to date gives new insights into the underlying biology [EN]
01/2025Science AlertScientists Discover Common Virus Could Be Causing a Type of Alzheimer’s [EN]
05/2024Science MagazineDecoding the brain [EN]
05/2024GenomeWebPsychENCODE Research Collection Uncovers Molecular Processes in Brain Development, Disease [EN]

| 08/2023 | GenomeWeb | GWAS Identifies Loci Linked to Binge Eating Disorder [EN] | | 02/2023 | Health Reporter | Researchers Identify 27 Genetic Risk Variants Related To ADHD [EN] | | 10/2022 | SciTechDaily | What Makes You at Risk for Alzheimer’s? Researchers Have New Insight [EN] | | 10/2022 | Genomeweb | Autism, ADHD Found to Have Overlapping and Distinct Genetic Contributions [EN] | | 08/2022 | Drug Target Review | Novel insights into the genetic and molecular machinery that causes Alzheimer’s disease [EN] | | 08/2022 | Medical Xpress | Study identifies chromatin alterations in the brains of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [EN] | | 01/2021 | GenomeWeb | GWAS Reveals New Loci Linked to Brain White Matter Microstructure [EN] | 08/2016 | Ceska televize | Presentation of PredictSNP portal · starts at 06:13 [CZ] | | 08/2016 | MUNI online | New webserver allows prediction of mutation effect on human health [CZ] | | 10/2016 | Zdravotnictvi a medicina | New webserver for rare disease discovery [CZ] | | 04/2014 | Inspired | Designing a toxic chemical-eating bacteria, between the lab and the computer · starts at page 5 [EN] |