Jan Novak
Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Jan Novak is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, USA. He received BS and MS in Biology from the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic and PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has been at UAB since 1992. He was appointed to the rank of UAB Distinguished Professor in 2022.
His research interests include glycoimmunobiology and functional glycomics in health and disease, informing the emerging field of Glycomedicine. Major topics include renal and autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, and biologically active compounds. Dr. Novak has been involved in many collaborative interdisciplinary studies, including those related to IgA nephropathy. These studies led to a multi-hit hypothesis for the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy, a current “roadmap” for development of disease-specific treatment and biomarkers.