Nikol Mládková

In 2009, I graduated from 1st Medical School of Charles University with an MD degree. I subsequently began my PhD studies in cutaneous biology, with a special focus on skin tumors, at Bart's and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London. I concluded my studies following a successful Thesis Defense in 2014. My thesis focused on epigenetics of non-melanoma skin cancer. Thanks to the Bakala Foundation, I was able to begin my Masters of Public Health at Columbia University in 2013. I graduated with an M.P.H. degree from the Department of Population and Family Health in October, 2014. My concentration was forced migration, gender-based violence and child health. I currently work as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. During my medical studies, I spent one month conducting neurobiology research at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and several months at Duke University and Harvard University, where I researched a brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme. My research has won several prizes at student scientific conferences. I was an ERASMUS scholar for one semester in Paris at Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, and did clinical rotations at Coimbra University in Portugal and in Poznan in Poland. I started studying English when I was a small child, and passed a C1 level exam in English during high school. As a child, I also used to train intensely in track field, as well as play piano and accordion. My hobbies include music, long-distance running (I have completed two marathons and one half-marathon to date), poetry, and oriental languages.