**Ivana Van ˇeˇckov ´a**

Ivana Vaneˇckov ˇ a (born in 1964) is currently a research professor and the Head of the Department ´ of Experimental Hypertension at the Institute of Physiology, Prague, Czech Republic. Dr. Vane˘ckov ˇ a´ graduated from Charles University in 1987. She pursued her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, where she obtained her Ph.D. Degree. Dr. Vaneˇckov ˇ a´ became a postdoctoral fellow at the renal physiology laboratory at the Institute of Physiology, Prague. In 2001 she became assistant research professor at the Department of Experimental Medicine, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, where she was Head of the Department for Experimental Hypertension. As a Senior Investigator Dr. Vaneˇckov ˇ a continued her work at ´ the Institute of Physiology AS CR, in the Laboratory of Experimental Hypertension where she is interested in the role of renin-angiotensin and endothelin systems in hypertension and chronic kidney disease.
