Dr. Ales Hampl, presently, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Histology and Embryology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Masaryk University, and Head of the Centre of Biomolecular and Cellular Engineering of the International Clinical Research Centre of the St. Anne´s University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic, is the leading scientist in the Czech Republic in the field of human embryonic stem cells.  

After graduating from the Brno Veterinary University, he earned a Ph.D. in animal physiology and morphology from the Czech Academy of Sciences.  Following postdoctoral training at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, he established his laboratory in the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.  In his laboratory the first lines of human ES cells in the Czech Republic were derived in 2003.  

He has contributed significantly to understanding molecular pathways functioning in pluripotent cells, including female gametes and mouse and human embryonic stem cells.  His major focus is on mechanisms involved in a genetic instability of stem cells.  He is an author or coauthor of about 70 papers in scientific journals.  He acts as a PI in international projects focusing at various aspects of biology of human embryonic stem cells, such as global International Stem Cell Initiative and EU project Platforms for Biomedical Discovery with Human ES Cells.  Recently he was appointed vice-dean for research of the Faculty of Medicine of the Masaryk University.

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