RNDr. Boris Klempa, DrSc.
Research interest:
Hantaviruses as emerging pathogens: biodiversity, molecular evolution, ecology, and pathogenesis; Biodiversity and molecular evolution of rodent- and arthropod-borne viruses; Transmission mechanisms of tick-borne viruses and development of transmission blocking anti-tick vaccines.
Coordinator of several national and international projects, Seventh Framework Programs such as the European Virus Archive, ANTIDotE and H2020 EVAg and EVA-GLOBAL.
Education:
2000 – 2004 Ph.D., Institute of Virology, Charité, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
1999 RNDr., Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, specialization: virology, microbiology
1994 – 1999 Mgr., Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (Biology, specialization Virology)
Awards:
2021 - granting of honorary citizenship of Bratislava Old Town
2020 - together with Pavol Čekan, Crystal Wing in the category Medicine and Science
2020 - The SAS Award for popularization of science and social applications of science for Scientific Section 2 (collective)
2020 - finalist ESET Science Award 2020 in the category Outstanding Individual Contributor to Slovak Science; Public price
2020 - Scientist of the year in the Innovator of the Year category
2019 - Joel Dalrymple Award of the International Society for Hantaviruses
2017 - Scientific award of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic
2012 - The Visegrad Group Academies´Young Researcher Award 2012
2011 - Clinical Virology Award 2011 of the German virology societies DVV and GfV
2009 - The Slovak Academy of Sciences Award for a Young Scientist
2005 - The Robert Koch Price of the Charité School of Medicine, Berlin
1999 - Rector of Comenius University Award
Hantaviruses as emerging pathogens: biodiversity, molecular evolution, ecology, and pathogenesis; Biodiversity and molecular evolution of rodent- and arthropod-borne viruses; Transmission mechanisms of tick-borne viruses and development of transmission blocking anti-tick vaccines.
Coordinator of several national and international projects, Seventh Framework Programs such as the European Virus Archive, ANTIDotE and H2020 EVAg and EVA-GLOBAL.
Education:
2000 – 2004 Ph.D., Institute of Virology, Charité, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
1999 RNDr., Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, specialization: virology, microbiology
1994 – 1999 Mgr., Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (Biology, specialization Virology)
Awards:
2021 - granting of honorary citizenship of Bratislava Old Town
2020 - together with Pavol Čekan, Crystal Wing in the category Medicine and Science
2020 - The SAS Award for popularization of science and social applications of science for Scientific Section 2 (collective)
2020 - finalist ESET Science Award 2020 in the category Outstanding Individual Contributor to Slovak Science; Public price
2020 - Scientist of the year in the Innovator of the Year category
2019 - Joel Dalrymple Award of the International Society for Hantaviruses
2017 - Scientific award of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic
2012 - The Visegrad Group Academies´Young Researcher Award 2012
2011 - Clinical Virology Award 2011 of the German virology societies DVV and GfV
2009 - The Slovak Academy of Sciences Award for a Young Scientist
2005 - The Robert Koch Price of the Charité School of Medicine, Berlin
1999 - Rector of Comenius University Award