Biography:

Radim Havelek works at the Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Charles University, where he focuses on study of compounds with potential for use in the treatment of cancer diseases (natural alkaloids Amaryllidaceae, Papaveraceae, Fumariaceae, Solanaceae, new semi-synthetic derivatives of alkaloids, metallocenes, magnetic nanoparticles), cellular response to genotoxic stress at cellular and molecular level, study of cellular response to genome damage in the direction of cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, or activation of stress-induced premature senescence.