The 'Odile Bain Memorial Prize' (OBMP) is awarded annually by Parasites & Vectors in association with Merial, to perpetuate the memory of Odile Bain (28/04/1939 – 16/10/2012). This award has been established for Odile's outstanding contribution to medical and veterinary parasitology, her actions in encouraging productive collaborations among biologists,...
Martin Kváč, a head of the Laboratory of Veterinary and Medical Protistology of the Institute of Parasitology, BC CAS, was appointed Professor. The Document of Appointment was handed over by the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Stanislav Štech on 23 June 2017 in the Great Hall of Carolinum in Prague.
Libor Grubhoffer will be a new Director of the largest scientific institution in South Bohemia - Biology Centre (BC) CAS. On Monday, June 26, he was appointed by the president of the Czech Academy of Sciences Eva Zažímalová. His term of office is five years and begins on July 1, 2017. Libor Grubhoffer replaces Miloslav Šimek, who has been in charge of the institution since 2012.
