Laureate
Mgr. Kateřina Rohlenová, Ph.D.
Neuron Award 2023 for Promising Scientists in medicine
Neuron Award 2023 for Promising Scientists in medicine. Awarded for groundbreaking research on metabolic communication between healthy and cancerous cells
Kateřina Rohlenová is a leading expert in the field of cancer biology. She conducts groundbreaking research on metabolic communication between healthy and cancerous cells. Her project, supported by a prestigious ERC grant, has an ambitious goal: she wants to identify the "Achilles' heels" of cancer cells and thus enable the development of innovative therapeutic approaches. She is now trying to identify new strategies to fight cancer, which has the potential to bring major breakthroughs in the treatment of the disease. At the Institute of Biotechnology of the CAS, she has established the Laboratory of Cell Metabolism.
How do cancer cells communicate with each other? And where is cancer's Achilles heel? Kateřina Rohlenová, winner of the Neuron Prize for Promising Scientists 2023 in the field of medicine, is looking for answers.
I want to thank you for the support and opportunities that have brought me here - I take the Neuron Award as a tremendous achievement and, at the same time, as an immense commitment to continue doing great science and creating opportunities for others.