Science and Research

Basic Information

Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc is one of the main centres of biomedical research in the Czech Republic. It has a long tradition and an ambition to become an important centre of innovation and excellence not only among Czech medical faculties but also in the Central European region.

Since the re-establishment of Palacký University in 1946, many scientists working at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry have become globally recognized for their research activities and results. Among those were Professor František Šantavý, a pioneer in phytochemistry of alkaloids from plants of the genus Colchium and research into the structure of cannabidiol and their derivatives; Professor Václav Vejdovský who introduced a new method for reconstructing the lower tear duct with oral mucosa; Professor Pavel Lukl, a leading Czech cardiologist and ex-President of the European Society of Cardiology; Professor Boleslav Wiedermann, known worldwide for his research into blood diseases, in particular monoclonal gammopathies; and Professor Václav Rapant, an author of important publications on surgery of the oesophagus and stomach.

At the present time, research and scientific activities at the Faculty stand on three pillars. These are the BIOMEDREG project (Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine), preclinical research (other research teams in the Theoretical Institutions) and clinical research. These components are not isolated but they are interconnected and cooperate with each other. One of the key advantages is that the Faculty is located in the vicinity of the University Hospital Olomouc, allowing the two institutions to share employees, departments, projects and technology. Many teams also closely cooperate with departments of the Faculty of Science and prominent biomedical research centres both in the Czech Republic and abroad. Much attention is paid to developing research skills in students, both undergraduate and postgraduate. Twenty-five accredited doctoral programmes of study make the best use of the infrastructure of the new faculty building (annex).

The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry is currently the principal investigator of nearly 60 major national grant projects and a co-investigator of another 20 projects. Each year, at least 100 high-quality articles with authors from the Faculty are published in prestigious journals having the so-called impact factor that are listed in the Journal Citation Report (JCR); another 150 articles are published in peer-reviewed journals.

Research Priorities at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

1. Disease development and progression

  • Cancers
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • Infectious diseases
  • Metabolic and endocrine diseases
  • Neurological and mental disorders
  • Musculoskeletal disorders
  • Inflammatory and immunological diseases

2. Novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods

  • Innovative surgical procedures including transplantation
  • Gene and cell therapy; tissue replacement
  • Biological drugs including vaccines
  • In vitro diagnosis
  • Small-molecule drugs
  • Drug delivery systems
  • Development of new medical devices and equipment

3. Epidemiology and prevention of the most serious diseases

  • Cancers
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • Infectious diseases
  • Metabolic and endocrine diseases
  • Neurological and mental disorders and addictions
  • Musculoskeletal disorders
  • Inflammatory and immunological diseases

Biomedical Papers

An important event in the scientific life of the Faculty was the 2011 inclusion of Biomedical Papers, a journal of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc, in the Thomson Reuters global database of journals with impact factors. With an impact factor of 1.200 (2014 JCR Science Edition), it currently ranks 11th among 40 scientific journals with impact factors published in the Czech Republic.

Scientific Board

The Scientific Board of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc is an autonomous academic body of the Faculty as defined by Sections 29 and 30 of Act No. 111/1998 Coll. on Higher Education Institutions, Article 9 of the Constitution of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc and the Rules of Procedure of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc.

Members of the Scientific Board are distinguished representatives in fields in which the Faculty carries out teaching and creative activities. At least one third of the members of the Scientific Board are from outside the Academic community of Palacký University Olomouc. The members are appointed and dismissed, upon approval from the Academic Senate of the Faculty, by the Dean who is the Chair of the Scientific Board. There are at least 21 members; the quorum is 3/5.   

The Scientific Board of the Faculty:

  • discusses the draft of the strategic plan of the Faculty, elaborated in compliance with the strategic plan of the University
  • approves the drafts of the degree programmes that are to be offered by the Faculty,
  • proposes plans to the Rector to submit requests for accreditations of degree programmes offered by the faculty,
  • plays its role in the procedures for the appointment of professors and for conferring habilitation
  • expresses its view on matters presented to it by the Dean.

The Scientific Board has its meetings at least once every three months. The meetings are not open to the public, the only exception being the habilitation lecture and the defense of the habilitation thesis and a lecture given by the applicant to be nominated as a professor.

Current Members of the Scientific Board

Chairman:

  1. Milan Kolář, prof. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (Dean, head of Department of Microbiology)

Internal members:

  1. Milan Adamus, prof. MUDr. Ph.D. MBA 
    (Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine)
  2. Pavel Anzenbacher, prof. RNDr. DrSc. 
    (Department of Pharmacology)
  3. Petr Bachleda, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (head of Department of Surgery II – Vascular and Transplantation Surgery)
  4.  Jan Bardoň, doc. MVDr. Ph.D. MBA 
    (Department of Microbiology)
  5. Vladimír Divoký, doc. RNDr. Ph.D. 
    (head of Department of Biology)
  6. Jiří Ehrmann, prof. MUDr. Ph.D.
    (Department of Histology and Embryology, Vice-Dean for international relations and study in English programs)
  7. Jiří Gallo, prof. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (head of Department of Orthopedics)
  8. Marián Hajdúch, doc. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (director of Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine)
  9. Roman Havlík, prof. MUDr.Ph.D.
    (Department of Surgery I, director of University Hospital Olomouc)
  10. Karel Indrák, prof. MUDr. DrSc. 
    (Department of Hemato-Oncology)
  11. Kateřina Ivanová, doc. PhDr. Ph.D. 
    (Department of Social Medicine and Public Health)
  12.  Petr Kaňovský, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (head of Department of Neurology)
  13. Zdeněk Kolář, prof. MUDr. CSc.
    (head of Department of Clinical and Molecular Pathology)
  14. Hana Kolářová, prof. RNDr. CSc.
    (head of  Department of Medical Biophysics, Vice-Dean for study of General Medicine (1st–3rd year) and Admissions)
  15. Vítězslav Kolek, prof. MUDr. DrSc. 
    (head of Department of Respiratory Medicine)
  16. Bohuslav Melichar, prof. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (head of Department of Oncology)
  17. Vladimír Mihál, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (Department of Pediatrics)
  18. Martin Modrianský, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
    (Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Vice-Dean for development and postgraduate studies)
  19. Čestmír Neoral, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (head of Department of Surgery I)
  20. Tomáš Papajík, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (head of Department of Hemato-Oncology, statutary representative of the Dean, Vice-Dean for science, research and faculty organisation)
  21. Martin Petřek, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (head of Department of Pathological Physiology)
  22. Martin Procházka, prof. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (head of Department of Medical Genetics)
  23. Eliška Sovová, prof. MUDr. Ph.D. MBA 
    (head of Department of Exercise Medicine and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, Vice-Dean for study of General Medicine (4th–6th year) and communication)
  24. Juraj Ševčík, prof. RNDr. Ph.D. 
    (Department of Analytical Chemistry)
  25. Miloš Špidlen, doc. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (head of Institute of Dentistry and Oral Sciences, Vice-Dean for study of Dentistry)
  26. Miloš Táborský, CSc., prof. MUDr. FESC MBA 
    (head of Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology)
  27. Jitka Ulrichová, prof. RNDr. CSc. 
    (head of Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Vice-Rector for science and research)
  28. Evžen Weigl, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (Department of Immunology)
  29. Josef Zadražil, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (head of Department of Internal Medicine III - Nephrology, Rheumatology and Endocrinology)

 

External members:

  1. Martin Bareš, prof. MUDr. Ph.D.
    (Dean, Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University Brno, First Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and St. Anne´s Faculty Hospital Brno) 
  2. Pavel Boštík, prof. MUDr. Ph.D.
    (Dean, University of Defence in Brno) 
  3. Alois Čížek, prof. MVDr. CSc. 
    (Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Brno) 
  4. Ján Danko, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (Dean, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin of the Comenius University in Bratislava) 
  5. Lydie Izakovičová Hollá, prof. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (Vice-Dean for Dentistry Study Programme and Academic Affairs, Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University  Brno, Head, Department of Stomatology, Faculty of Medicine and St. Anne´s Faculty  Hospital Brno) 
  6. Roman Chlíbek, plk. prof. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (head, Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Military Health Sciences)
  7. Milan Kvapil, prof. MUDr. CSc. MBA 
    (head, Department of Internal Medicine, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and Motol University Hospital) 
  8. Dušan Mištuna, doc. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (Vice-Dean for Development of the Faculty, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin)
  9. Jaroslav Mokrý, prof. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (head, Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Hradec Králové) 
  10. Vladimír Palička, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Hradec Králové) 
  11. Radovan Slezák, doc. MUDr. CSc. 
    (head, Department of Dentristy, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Hradec Králové)
  12. Martin Svoboda, plk. MUDr. 
    (director, Military Hospital Olomouc) 
  13. Pavel Ševčík, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (head, Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation Ostrava University Hospital)
  14. Jan Trka, prof. MUDr. Ph.D. 
    (Vice-Dean for science, research and doctoral, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University  in Prague, Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and Motol University Hospital)
  15. Jiří Vaněk, prof. MUDr. CSc. 
    (Department of Stomatology, Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University and St. Anne´s Faculty Hospital Brno)

Honorary members:

  1. prof. MUDr. Vladimír Král, CSc.  
    (Department of Surgery I)
  2. prof. MUDr. Milan Kudela, CSc.  
    (Department of Obsterics and Gynecology)
  3. prof. MUDr. Jindřich Pazdera, CSc.  
    (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery)
  4. prof. MUDr. Vlastimil Ščudla, CSc.  
    (Department of Internal Medicine III. - Nephrology, Rheumatology and Endocrinology)

Scientific Board Meeting Dates

The meetings are to be held on Thursdays in October, December, February, April and June in the new Faculty building (Hněvotínská 3, Olomouc). 

  • 5 October 2017
  • 7 December 2017
  • 1 February 2018
  • 5 April 2018
  • 7 June 2018

Rules of Procedure of the Scientific Board

Rules of Procedure of the Scientific Board (in Czech; in English

Research & Development and Investment Committee of the Faculty

Chairman:

  1. prof. MUDr. Tomáš Papajík, CSc., Vice-Dean

Members:

  1. prof. RNDr. Pavel Anzenbacher, DrSc. (Department of Pharmacology)
  2. prof. MUDr. Miroslav Heřman, Ph.D. (Department of Radiology)
  3. prof. MUDr. Karel Indrák, DrSc. (Department of Hemato-Oncology)
  4. prof. MUDr. Pavel Kaňovský, CSc. (Department of Neurology)
  5. prof. MUDr. Zdeněk Kolář, CSc. (Department of Clinical and Molecular Pathology)
  6. prof. MUDr. Martin Petřek, CSc. (Department of Pathological Physiology)
  7. prof. MUDr. Josef Zadražil, CSc. (Department of Internal Medicine III - Nephrology, Rheumatology and Endocrinology)
  8. doc. RNDr. Vladimír Divoký, Ph.D. (Department of Biology)
  9. prof. MUDr. Jiří Gallo, Ph.D. (Department of Orthopedics)
  10. doc. MUDr. Marián Hajdúch, Ph.D. (Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine)
  11. prof. Mgr. Martin Modrianský, Ph.D. (Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry)
  12. prof. MUDr. Čestmír Neoral, CSc. (Department of Surgery I)
  13. doc. MUDr. Martin Starosta, Ph.D. (Institute of Dentistry and Oral Sciences)
  14. doc. MUDr. Martin Hutyra, Ph.D. (Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology)
  15. prof. RNDr. Hana Kolářová, Ph.D. (Department of Medical Biophysics)
  16. doc. RNDr. Petr Mlejnek, Ph.D. (Department of Abnatomy)
  17. doc. MUDr. Karel Urbánek, Ph.D. (Department of Pharmacology)

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