Charles University Teams Received the Minister of Health Awards












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            * Charles University Teams Received the Minister of Health Awards
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            On December 13, 2010, five research teams from Charles University received the award for o

            achievements in research in development from the Minister of Health, Mr. Leoš Heger, in a 
            Martinic Palace. At the same time, the Award of the Public was announced, which will be gr
            that will have garnered most votes in the poll on the Ministry of Health website. Research

            of medicine are being awarded each year on the anniversary of the birth of the renowned Cz
            scientist Jan Evangelista Purkyně.
            This year’s candidates were chosen out of 220 projects finished in 2009. Expert committees

            the number down to 15 nominations. Thereafter the list of the candidates was made availabl
            Scientific Committee of the Internal Grant Agency of the Ministry of Health, to which the 

            investigators were to present the results of particular projects. The committee then gave 
            the recommended nominations to the Minister of Health who makes the final decision. “Based
            examination of the nominations, I have decided to grant the Minister of Health Award to th

            give a honourable mention to other four, because although they might not be on the very pi
            achievements can be and will be important on the national level and can have a significant
            the international level as well”, said Minister Heger. All three awards were given to team

            University, honourable mentions were divided equally between the teams from Charles Univer
            University Olomouc.
            The Minister of Health Award was received by Professor MUDr. Evžen Růžička, DrSc. and his 

            from the Charles University 1st Faculty of Medicine. The objective of the project was to p
            implantation procedure of deep brain stimulation, to develop its new indications and contr
            knowledge of its effects.


            The Minister of Health Award was received by doc. MUDr. Pavel Kršek, Ph.D. and his colleag
            Charles University 2nd Faculty of Medicine. The goal of their project was to optimize the 

            complicated candidates of surgical treatment of epilepsy and improve their post-operation 
            The Minister of Health Award was received by Professor MUDr. Martin Haluzík, DrSc. and his
            the Charles University 1st Faculty of Medicine. The team investigated the effects of the h

            related to obesity and inefficiency of insulin in female diabetes patients. 

            A honourable mention was given to Professor MUDr. Tomáš Seeman, CSc. and his team from the

            University 2nd Faculty of Medicine. The goal of their project was to identify the prevalen
            in children after kidney transplantation, investigate the risk factors causing its emergen
            possibilities of proteinuria prevention using an angiotensin-converting enzyme.



            A honourable mention was given to Professor MUDr. Renata Cífková, CSc., and her colleagues

            Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine. The objective of the project is to ident
            the long-term trends of basic risk factors for cardiovascular disease in a representative 
            Czech population.

            You can vote in the Award of the Public poll here [ URL "http://www.mzcr.cz/"] .
             (Lucie Kettnerová)
            Translation: Jaroslav Švelch