Organizing Committee
Pavla Jendelova
Charles University, Prague
Pavla Jendelová received her Master’s degree in natural sciences (biology) from Charles University in Prague in 1988, then she did her doctoral research in neurophysiology at the Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine, where she received her PhD in 1999. As a postdoctoral researcher she shifted her research interest to the use of stem cells in neuroregeneration. Together with Professor James Fawcett at the University of Cambridge, she directs the Centre for Reconstructive Neuroscience, focusing on regeneration of neural tissue using viral vectors for gene transfer and extracellular matrix manipulation.
This includes damage to nervous tissue in the brain and spinal cord, including issues of neurodegeneration and retinal degeneration. Other important issues are the replacement of small-diameter blood vessels, active healing of chronic wounds and osteochondral defects, which are also among the serious problems of modern civilised society.
Rajiv Mohan is a professor of ophthalmology and molecular medicine at the School of Medicine. He is also director of MU’s Ophthalmology One-Health One-Medicine Research Program and director of resident research at the Mason Eye Institute
Mohan has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and has presented his work at national and international eye research conferences. In 2014, he was named a Silver Fellow by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the largest eye and vision research organization in the world.
An eye injury or disease that destroys the cornea affects 1.5 million Americans annually. Mohan has discovered minimally invasive techniques for injecting and applying medicines topically. To cure animals with sick corneas, he has also developed a novel technique that uses nanoparticles to inject therapeutic genes. His goal is to use gene therapy in human medicine.
Rajiv Mohan
Mason Eye Institute, USA
Dimova Ana
Croatia
Ana Dimova is part of the team of the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Special Hospital of St. Katarina since 2021, where she participates in the work of the proctology clinic and surgery (examinations, diagnostics, treatment, and operative procedures).
Her narrower field of interest is coloproctological surgery with an emphasis on oncological and narrower proctological pathology. She has extensive experience in one-day surgery, in which he performs the majority of proctological and inguinal/umbilical/epigastric hernia operations.
She is a regular and award-winning guest and lecturer at professional meetings and congresses of abdominal surgery and proctology and co-author of several international prospective studies in the field of emergency surgical conditions.