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Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A: spotlight on kidney diseases

• Marta Kalousová

  Prof. Marta Kalousová, MD, PhD (1974) graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic in 1998 and since 2010 she has been Professor of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine of this Faculty. She is a specialist in clinical chemistry and internal medicine-nephrology. Her main areas of interest include testing of new biochemical and molecular genetic biomarkers and their clinical significance, especially markers related to cardiovascular risk in patients with chronic kidney diseases, pregnancy proteins, tumor markers and advanced glycation end-products and oxidative stress. She is the author of more then 100 scientific papers, students’ book Atlas of pathobiochemistry and two book chapters, and a member of the editorial board of Kidney and Blood Pressure Research. Prof. Kalousová received many awards for her scientific work, including L’Oréal Czech Republic for Women in Science and Jan Brod Prize.

  , Vladimír Tesaíř

  Prof. Vladimír Tesař, MD, PhD, MBA, FASN, FERA, was born May 5, 1957 and graduated in 1982 from the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague. He is Professor of Medicine (since 1999) and the Head of Department of Nephrology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (since 2003). His main areas of interest are glomerular disease (ANCA-vasculitis, lupus nephritis, membranous and IgA nephropathy), cardiovascular complications of chronic kidney disease and hereditary diseases of the kidney. Prof. Tesař is an author and co-author of more than 260 peer reviewed publications in leading journals and one of the main authors of two monographies. He is a member of many scientific societies (e.g., Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology since 2005) and editorial boards (e.g., Folia Biologica, Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, Blood Purification).

  , Alexandra Muravská

  Alexandra Muravská, MSc was born December 23, 1983, in Vranov nad Toplou, Slovakia. She graduated in 2007 with a degree in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Currently, she is a PhD student of Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry at the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. Her research work has concentrated on searching new biochemical and molecular genetic markers of pathological states in pregnancy and other diseases.

  and Tomáš Zima

  Prof. Tomáš ZIMA, MD, DSc (1966) graduated from the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague in 1990 and has been Professor of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry since 2001 and Head of Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine since 1999. He has been the Dean of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University since 2005. His main research interests include oxidative stress, AGEs, experimental nephrology, tumor markers, and laboratory management and accreditation. He is the author of more than 300 articles and five books, has co-authored 56 chapters in books. He is the Editor in Chief – Folia Biologica and Addictology. Prof. Zima is a member of many learned societies and is on many of their Boards (e.g., he is a member of Executive Board EFCC, and is President of the Czech Society of Clinical Biochemistry). He has received many awards including the “Professor Honoris Causa”, from the Ternopil State Medical University Ivan Horbachevsky, Ternopil, Ukraine and the ESBRA Peter Berner Award (2011).