Project: Polyomaviruses
1. Molecular mechanisms of individual steps of infection. Interactions of virus and its gene products with host cell structures and their functional consequences.
2. Utilisation of virus structures in gene transfer and immunotherapy.
Laboratory is a part of:
Centre for New Antivirals and Antineoplastics
Centre of Functional Organization of the Cell
Grants:
National:
2003 - 2007: ACR - doktorský program n. 204/03/40662003 - 2005: ACR, n. 204/03/05932002 - 2004: GA2000 - 2002: ACR, n. 204/00/02711998 - 2000: MŠMT, OK 3721996 - 2000: MŠMT, VS 96 1351996 - 1998: ACR, n. 204/96/02561994 - 1996: UK, n. 20096
International:
1995 - 2000: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA n. 75195 - 540501: Polyoma late antigens: Interactions, Functions and Utilization.1998 - 2000: Participation in EC, "BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME", (BIO-CT97-2147) Polyomavirus Pseudocapsids as vectors: Applications for Genetic and Immunological Therapeutic Purposes of Modified VP1 Pseudocapsids.
Collaborators:
NDr. Š. Němečková, DrSc. - Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (IHBT), Prague, link
Prof. B. E. Griffin - Imperial College School of Medicine, London, link
Doc. RNDr. Zdena Palková, CSc. - Charles University, Faculty of Scince in Prague, link