Miroslava Stastna completed her master’s degree in chemistry at
Charles University in Prague and received her PhD in analytical
chemistry from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. She carried
out her postdoctoral fellowship at National Institutes of Health in
Bethesda, Maryland, USA from 1998 to 2001. She was visiting scientist
at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, USA
in 2003. She joined Prof. Jennifer Van Eyk lab in 2005 at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland for two years, with repeated
stays in 2008 and 2010 and then, she worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles, California from 2016 to 2018. Her research
projects were targeted to clinical proteomics, mainly in the field of
cardiology. This included identification and characterization of the
proteins secreted by the cells under various pathological conditions
using mass spectrometry-based proteomic approaches. She served as the
session chair at international conferences, as the editor of journal
special issues and the reviewer for scientific journals. At present,
Miroslava Stastna works at Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the
Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno and she focuses on development of
electrophoretic methods in continuous divergent flow for their use in
proteomics and in preparative separation and purification of proteins
from various biological samples.
