Tomáš Kalina
Tomáš Kalina, MD. PhD, is currently an Associated Professor at the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague.
He graduated as an MD in 2000 from 2nd Medical School, Charles University Prague and started his research and diagnostic career in Prague (leukemia diagnostics and biology), and continued on a postdoctoral fellowship at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA (immune reconstitution post-BMT). He received a PhD in Immunology in 2005. He was awarded "ISAC Scholar" in 2010. He is currently a president of the Czech Society for Analytical Cytology.
Throughout his career he has centered on working with various flow cytometry based techniques (leukemia phenotyping, minimal residual disease monitoring, immune monitoring, immunodeficiency, bead-based proteomics, algorithmic data analysis). He is a founding member of the EuroFlow consortium where he is responsible for coordination of the technical aspects and design of flow cytometry procedures. At present, he is actively involved in EuroFlow Primary Immunodeficiency workpackage and EuroFlow proficiency testing.
