gregor mendel discoveriesWhen the student protests started in 1989 -- Kralovics’s second year at Comenius -- he played a part. "I had a fantastic time organizing the student protests," Kralovics says. "It was about our future." Soon after the regime's fall, he got a fellowship to spend a semester in London, an opportunity he wouldn't have had under the regime. When he finished his undergraduate studies, Kralovics and his girlfriend decided to marry and study in Brno -- she medicine and he genomics. Unfortunately, there was no program in human genomics at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Brno, so Kralovics reluctantly switched to the biophysics program, where he could study plant genetics.
It was really a bit of a detour, seemingly, but I learned so much," he says. "At that time, plant genomics was a bit further ahead." As Kralovics was finishing his Ph.D. in 1995, an unexpected chance arose to return to human genomics and escape the faltering Czech economy. Kralovics's undergraduate professor recommended him to Josef Prchal, a Czech-American hematologist working at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Prchal invited Kralovics to work in his lab for a year. It meant putting his Ph.D. on hold, and his Ph.D. adviser was against it, but Kralovics said yes. Fertilizing an idea His partnership with Prchal was fruitful. Prchal's clinical k
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