Jitka Ourednik

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Jitka Ourednik, neuroscientist
Jitka Ourednik in the Developmental and Regenerative Neuroscience Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, 2002

Jitka Ourednik , née Hanzíková (born April 19, 1955 in Prague ) is a Czech natural scientist . She lives in Switzerland.

Career

She studied neuroscience at Charles University in Prague . She completed her doctorate at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . Your work contributed significantly to answering important questions about the development and regeneration of the nervous system . She did her first postdoctoral stay at the University of Lausanne . With her husband and research assistant Václav Ourednik, she worked for three decades at universities and institutes such as Harvard University and ETH Zurich. Together with her husband, she published in the journals Science , Nature and PNAS ( Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA ). The scientific contributions deal with the development and regeneration of the central nervous system (CNS) and the development of innovative therapeutic methods for injuries and degenerative diseases of the spinal cord and brain .

Together, the two naturalists founded the Alpine Astrovillage , a center for astrophotography and celestial observation, in the International Astronomical Year 2009 . It is located in the eastern Swiss Alps , in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Val Müstair-Swiss National Park . Jitka Ourednik received a number of recognitions for her scientific, educational and popularizing work. She organized scientific congresses and chaired lecture colloquia in Germany and abroad. Her neurobiological research focused on the induction of then unknown regenerative capabilities of the CNS in connection with transplantation of embryonic neural tissue and neural stem cells . In 2005 the research couple were invited to present their research results and ideas at the Nobel Forum for Young Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm . Since 2009 they have been devoting themselves exclusively to their popular science and educational activities and to running their AAV center. For her many years of internationally recognized work as a native Czech living abroad, Jitka Ourednik was nominated twice by the Czech Embassy in Switzerland as a candidate for the Gratias Agit Prize.

She is the daughter of the Czech sculptor Stanislav Hanzík

Scientific activity: developmental and regenerative neurosciences, selected literature

Source: US National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health , PubMed

Popular scientific activity: astrophotography

  • (German) (English) Homepage of the Alpine Astrovillage astrophotography center
  • (German) (English) (French) (Czech) Caelus Verlag associated with the AAV center. Edits popular science books, radio plays and other publications on astronomy and astrophotography

Media: selected contributions

Other

personal data
SURNAME Ourednik, Jitka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanzíková, Jitka (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague