Tomas Hucl MD, PhD

He graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, in 2000 and subsequently joined the Hepatogastroenterology Department, Transplantation Centre, IKEM, Prague, where he works to this day. He has held research fellowships at the University of Heidelberg and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The main topic of his research activities is the molecular biology of pancreatic cancer. In 2008, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on this subject and in 2015 he was awarded his habilitation. In 2012, he was elected to the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy committee, and since 2014 he has chaired its educational committee. In 2015, he was elected a member of the Endoscopy section of the Czech Society of Gastroenterology and a new member of the Editorial Board of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.