Lucie Bacakova
Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Biography
Lucie Bacakova, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. has graduated from the Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1984. She has completed her Ph.D at the age of 32 years from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and became Associated Professor at the 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University. Since 2005, she is the Head of the Department of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is a specialist for studies on cell-biomaterial interaction and for vascular, bone and skin tissue engineering. She has published more than 160 papers in reputed journals (h-index 33).