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Dr. Vaclav Vetvicka, Ph.D. is
a Professor at the Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine,University of Louisville,
Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Vetvicka graduated in 1978 from Charles University in
Prague, Czech Republic with a doctorate degree in biology
and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1983 from the
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of
Microbiology, Prague. He is a member of the Czech
Immunological Society, American Association of
Immunologists, International Society of
Developmental and Comparative Immunology, and
American Association for Cancer Research. In 1984 he
was awarded the Distinguished Young Scientist Award
of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. During 1984
to 1985 and 1988 he spent 18 months as a Research
Associate in Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is author or co-author
of more than 150 original papers, several review
articles, and three patents. He is a co-author of
the books Evolution of Immune Reactions, Immunology
of Annelids, Aspartic Proteinases, Methods in
Cellular Immunology, and Evolutionary Mechanisms of
Defense Reactions, and co-editor of books
Immunological Disorders in Mice and Immune System
Accessory Cells. Dr. Vetvicka’s current major
research interests include the role of procathepsin
D in cancer development, the role of glucan in NK
cell activation, and the phylogenic aspects of
defense reactions.
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