!!Marcela Pekna - Curriculum Vitae
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__Higher education qualification:__
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*1984 - 1990  MD with the Highest Honors (Cum Eminentia) and medical license, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic\\
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__Doctoral degree:__
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*1993:  DrMedSc (PhD) in Clinical Immunology, Uppsala University, Sweden\\Doctoral thesis: Complement activation as an indicator of biocompatibility\\
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__Postdoctoral training:__
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*1994 - 1995   Postdoctoral fellow at the Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, the University of Gothenburg (UG) , Sweden in the group of Prof. Christer Betsholtz\\
*1995 - 1998 Awarded a three-year scholarship to gain Associate Professor (Docent) competence from the Swedish Society for Medical Research
*Associate Professor (Docent) in Medical Biochemistry, UG, 1999\\
*Professor in Neuroimmunology, UG, 2017\\
*Opponent duties and doctoral thesis examiner in Sweden and Australia\\
*Chair of PhD thesis examination committee for 10 doctoral candidates, UG\\
*Member of PhD thesis examination committee for 5 doctoral candidates, UG and Lund University\\
*Main supervisor of 4 PhD students  and 12 postdoctoral researchers
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__Commissions of trust:__
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*2016 - present: Deputy MC member for Sweden in the European COST Action EuroCellNet - a research network of 31 European countries\\
*2017 - present: Stroke Centre West, UG, steering board member\\
*2017 - present: Peter Eriksson’s Foundation for Brain Research, Gothenburg, steering board member
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__Conference / meeting / symposia organizer within the last 2 years:__
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*4th Peter Eriksson Conference: Improving Brain Plasticity and Regeneration – From Basic Research to the Clinic, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2017\\
*Targeting the brain plasticity in CNS diseases. A symposium at the 43rd FEBS Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018\\
*2nd BrainGain Sweden Innovation Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018\\
*Complement: Sculpting the developing and diseased brain. A symposium at The International Society for Neurochemistry Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2019\\
*Invited speaker at more than 80 plenary lectures /research conference lectures / University special lectures\\ \\