List of articles from archive in month: March 2011
Tuberculosis – Not Just a Disease of the Poor
“Tuberculosis was and still is a disease of the poor but you may also contract it when you are overworked and employed at a government ministry, for example. All depends on your susceptibility to TB and on who you come into contact with,” said Prof. MUDr. Jiří Homolka, DrSc., head of the First Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases of the Charles University First Faculty of Medicine and the General Teaching Hospital, at an event to mark World Tuberculosis Day.
25 March 2011
Prestigious Nature Reviews Genetics Publishes Article by Doctoral Student from Hradec Králové
The world’s leading journal in the field of genetics has published an article co-authored by Ondřej Libiger, a doctoral student of the Charles University Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, on statistical analysis strategies used to study links between DNA variants and diseases. For eight years now, Ondřej Libiger has been working at the University of California and the Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego, California. Later this spring, he will defend his PhD. thesis at the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové.
21 March 2011
A History with a Difference
On March 3, 2011, the Institute of Czech Literature and Literary Studies organized an event to promote the book “Dějiny nové moderny. Česká literatura v letech 1905–1923” (The History of New Modernism. Czech Literature 1905–1923). Co-organized by the Students’ Council of the Charles University Faculty of Arts, the event took place in a lecture hall on the faculty’s premises on náměstí Jana Palacha.
15 March 2011