Václav Hampl

Václav Hampl (November 2008)

Václav Hampl (born 1962) is a Czech physiologist and, since 2006, rector of Charles University in Prague.

Hampl was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1962 and received a PhD from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1990. He did postgraduate work at the University of Minnesota Medical School and, since 2002, has been a professor of physiology at Charles University in Prague. His research has focused on the pulmonary circulation and its use of nitric oxide as a signaling agent. In 2006, Hampl became the 507th rector of Charles University in Prague.

External links

• Media related to Václav Hampl at Wikimedia Commons
• Hampl's home page
• Hampl's CV (PDF)
• Hampl interviewed after his election as rector