greatest recent scientific achievements ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** The greatest recent scientific achievements of Charles University include: • publishing of a paper by an international research team headed by Professor Jaroslav Fle University, Faculty of Science on the impact of a toxoplasma parasite on the proportion birth of boys and girls in the prestigious British Parasitology journal • discovery of a genus whose mutations are the cause of a serious hereditary defect of the (team of Charles University, 1st Faculty of Medicine, General University Hospital in Pra University College London) • discovery of the first known eucaryotic organism without mitochondria, i.e. a protozoan Monocercomonoides (team of Doc. Vladimír Hampl from Charles University, Faculty of Scien of Parasitology • the finding of a unique ship from the period of pyramid builders in Abúsír (the Czech In Egyptology, Charles University, Faculty of Arts) • discovery of an innovative method of ensuring the prevention of blood clotting in the ex circulation of a device for replacing kidney functions and related patient methods and e implementation (Plzeň Faculty of Medicine team) • discoveries in the field of optospintronics, which have been published in prestigious in magazines (team from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics) • interfaculty and multidisciplinary cooperation when addressing the problem of resistant primarily the project Prague?15 – “a study comparing the effect of renal denervation and pharmacological therapy” (teams from 1stand 3rd Faculties of Medicine) • publication in “Nature” magazine: “Pre-oral gut contributes to facial structures in non- fishes” (team from Faculty of Science) • “Royal Women in the Visegrad Region: Cult and Art Associated with Them” – project, which the Visegrad Fund to present a study about the significant women of Central Europe in th (team from Catholic Theological Faculty)