Mentoring

The Czech laboratory is active in mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Many former student and postdoctoral trainees of the Czech laboratory are now internationally recognized professors at major universities and medical schools. These former lab members include:

Paul Pilch, Professor of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine

Jeffrey Pessin, Professor and Director of the Diabetes Center, Einstein College of Medicine

Joan Massague,  Director, Sloan Kettering Institute

Roger Davis, HHMI investigator and Professor of Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School

Silvia Corvera, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of the MD/PhD Program, UMass Chan Medical School

Carla Greenbaum, Vice Chair and Director of Clinical Research, Benaroya Research Institute

Jes Klarlund, Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Rob Lewis, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eppley Cancer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Richard MacDonald, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eppley Cancer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Assia Shisheva, Professor of Physiology, Wayne State School of Medicine.

Mark Sleeman, Professor of Physiology, Monash University, Australia

John Harris, Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School

Zhen Jiang, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, Boston University

Vishu Puri, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University

Olga Gupta, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Tim Fitzgibbons, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School

Myriam Aouadi, Assistant Professor, Integrated Cardio Metabolic Centre, Karolinska Institute

Adilson Guilherme, Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School