Vaclav Vetvicka
University of Louisville School of Medicine
USA
Biography
Vaclav Vetvicka, Ph.D., is a Professor of Pathology and Director of Research at the Department of Pathology of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic with an advanced degree in biology and obtained his Ph.D. from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. His postgraduate training included a stay at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, and at the Institute of Microbiology, Prague, Czech Republic. In addition to the glucan research, Dr. Vetvicka helped to launch glucan in several countries including USA, France, Turkey and Czech Republic. Dr. Vetvicka is author and co-author of more than 220 peer-reviewed publications, eight books and nine international patents.
Research Interest
His main area of research interest focuses on the development of natural immunomodulators