{"id":56812,"date":"2026-06-24T19:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/?p=56812"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:21:27","slug":"daniel-benak-was-awarded-the-otto-wichterle-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/2026\/06\/daniel-benak-was-awarded-the-otto-wichterle-premium\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ben\u00e1k was awarded the Otto Wichterle Premium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Ben\u00e1k, PhD. of IPHYS received the 2026 Otto Wichterle Award<\/a> on June 24. The award was presented by the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Radom\u00edr P\u00e1nek. The Otto Wichterle Award is granted annually to outstanding early-career researchers who achieve excellent results in their fields and demonstrate significant potential for further development.<\/em><\/p>\n

Daniel Ben\u00e1k<\/a>\u2019s research in the Laboratory of Developmental Cardiology<\/a> focuses on the physiology and pathophysiology of the cardiovascular system. In particular, he studies epitranscriptomics\u2014the field investigating chemical modifications of RNA and their impact on cellular function. His work primarily addresses diabetes and its cardiovascular complications, with the aim of identifying new biomarkers that could contribute to earlier diagnosis and the advancement of personalized medicine. We warmly congratulate him on this significant achievement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Photos: Josef Landergott, DVV SS\u010c AV \u010cR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Daniel Ben\u00e1k, PhD. of IPHYS received the 2026 Otto Wichterle Award on June 24. The award was presented by the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Radom\u00edr P\u00e1nek. The Otto Wichterle Award is granted annually to outstanding early-career researchers who achieve excellent results in their fields and demonstrate significant potential for further development. Daniel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":56827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fgu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}