20. 09. 2024
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They’re rewriting physics textbooks. They’re learning how to repair a spinal cord injury. They’re exploring how immunity can help fight cancer. They’re finding out how our psyche affects our health and vice versa. These are just a few examples of the areas in which top Czech scientists excel. Check out this year’s prestigious Forbes (CZ) – Top Women in Science list (open in a new window – only available in Czech), which also includes our excellent neuroscientist and head of the Department of Neuroregeneration, Pavla Jendelová.
Associate Professor Pavla Jendelová works in basic research in Neuroscience. She is researching how to enable the regeneration of nervous tissue (brain and spinal cord) that cannot regenerate itself. She tries to find ways to restore nerve fibre growth, improve the plasticity of nerve tissue, and change the environment of damaged tissue so that it can one day help patients with spinal cord injury. So far, the research is being conducted in experimental models of laboratory rats and mice. A team of scientists led by her has already succeeded in “forcing” neurons to regenerate and restore feeling in the limbs of mice with severed spinal cords.