Biography:
Assoc. Prof. Lucie Bacakova, MD, PhD, graduated from the Faculty of General Medicine at Charles University in Prague in 1984. She then joined the Institute of Physiology (IPHYS) of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where she received her PhD degree in 1992. She completed three research fellowships, namely at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA (Prof. S.M. Schwarz, 1996), the University of Pavia, Italy (Prof. Carlo Pellicciari, 2000) and the University of Pennsylvania (Prof. D. E. Discher, 2000-2001). In 2005, she founded a new Laboratory of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at IPHYS. In 2022, she received the prestigious "Praemium Academiae" award. She has published more than 290 articles in SCI journals (WOS: 9,636 citations, h-index 46).
Title : A versatile principle for creating pre-vascularized tissue in vitro for soft and hard tissue engineering