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
08/2023GenomeWebGWAS Identifies Loci Linked to Binge Eating Disorder [EN]
02/2023Health ReporterResearchers Identify 27 Genetic Risk Variants Related To ADHD [EN]
10/2022SciTechDailyWhat Makes You at Risk for Alzheimer’s? Researchers Have New Insight [EN]
10/2022GenomewebAutism, ADHD Found to Have Overlapping and Distinct Genetic Contributions [EN]
08/2022Drug Target ReviewNovel insights into the genetic and molecular machinery that causes Alzheimer’s disease [EN]
08/2022Medical XpressStudy identifies chromatin alterations in the brains of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [EN]
01/2021GenomeWebGWAS Reveals New Loci Linked to Brain White Matter Microstructure [EN]
08/2016Ceska televizePresentation of PredictSNP portal · starts at 06:13 [CZ]
08/2016MUNI onlineNew webserver allows prediction of mutation effect on human health [CZ]
10/2016Zdravotnictvi a medicinaNew webserver for rare disease discovery [CZ]
04/2014InspiredDesigning a toxic chemical-eating bacteria, between the lab and the computer · starts at page 5 [EN]