Leoš Valášek#
Photo: Jana Plavec, Czech Academy of Sciences
| Membership Number: | 7183 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.biomed.cas.cz/mbu/lrge/index.html#top |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8123-8667 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/leos-shivaya-valasek-2147a3133/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 ‐ present Group Leader at the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 2017 - present Member of the Doctoral board of the Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague
- 2019 - 2022 2025 - present Vice-chairman / member of the expert “Biological sciences panel” of the Czech Grant Agency
- 2017 ‐ 2021_Member of the Evaluation panel for Biological Sciences under the Section for Science, Research and Innovations (SRI/RVVI) within the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
- 2019 ‐ 2020 Member of the expert “Genetics, genomics and RNAs” panel of ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), France
- 2007 - 2016 Vice chairman of the IMIC CAS Council
- 2015 ‐ 2018 Member of the Academy Assembly of CAS
- 2018 ‐ 2020 Member of the expert “Biological sciences panel” of the National Science Center, Poland
- 1999 - 2004 Visiting Fellow Award Recipient; Laboratory Gene Regulation and Development National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD
- 1998 - 1999 Research Associate; Department of Virology; Regional Hospital Liberec, Liberec, the Czech Republic
Fields of Scholarship
- tRNA
- Stop codon readthrough
- Translation factors
- Ribosome
- Initiation
- Reinitiation
- Translation
- Regulation of gene expression
- Integrated stress response
- Termination
Honours and Awards
- 7/2024 Elected member of EMBO
- 1/2021 Praemium Academiae Grant from the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 9/2020 GACR President’s 2020 award from the Czech Science Foundation
- 1/2019 EXPRO grant of excellence, Czech Science Foundation
- 7/2015 Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship – 2nd renewal
- 1/2012 Centre of Excellence Grant, Czech Science Foundation
- 7/2010 Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship – 1st renewal
- 1/2006 Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar
- 7/2005 Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship
- 5/2005 NIH Global Health Research Initiative Program Award
- 5/2004 CAS Fellowship of Jan Evangelista Purkyne Recipient
- 5/1999 NIH Visiting Fellow Award Recipient
