Affiliation: Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Dr. Viktor Hlavac, Ph.D., is a Junior Scientist at the Department of Pharmacogenomics, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Czech Republic. He also holds a Junior Scientist position at the Toxicogenomics Department at the National Institute of Public Health in Prague, Czech Republic. His research focuses on discovering biomarkers of patient prognosis and chemotherapy response in solid tumors. His primary interests are using multi-omics technologies in cancer resistance and studying drug metabolism and transport genes, cytochromes P450, and ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters in precision oncology. Dr. Hlavac received an M.S. in Molecular Biology from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Rep., and a Ph.D. in Biomedicine from Charles University in Prague under Dr. Pavel Soucek. He was the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship under the mentorship of Prof. Ajay Goel. Duarte researched gastrointestinal cancer at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope.