Eva Syková

{{short description|Czech senator of Czech Parliament, doctor, professor and scientist}}

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|office = Senator from Prague 4

|term_start = 20 October 2012

|term_end = 20 October 2018

|predecessor = Tomáš Töpfer

|successor = Jiří Drahoš

|office1 = Director of Institute of Experimental Medicine

|term_start1 = 2001

|term_end1 = 2016

|predecessor1 = Josef Syka

|successor1 = Miroslava Anděrová

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1944|07|24}}

|birth_place = Rožmitál pod Třemšínem, Bohemia and Moravia
(now Czech Republic)

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|alma_mater = Charles University

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Eva Syková (born 1944) is a Czech neuroscientist whose research focused on the origins, mechanisms and maintenance of ionic and volume homeostasis in the central nervous system and the role of extrasynaptic transmission,{{cite web|url=http://www.eni-net.org/members/professor-eva-sykova|title=Professor Eva Sykova – ENI-NET|work=eni-net.org|access-date=2015-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117021750/http://www.eni-net.org/members/professor-eva-sykova|archive-date=2015-11-17|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal |last1=Syková |first1=Eva |last2=Nicholson |first2=Charles |title=Diffusion in Brain Extracellular Space |journal=Physiological Reviews |date=October 2008 |volume=88 |issue=4 |pages=1277–1340 |doi=10.1152/physrev.00027.2007|pmid=18923183 |pmc=2785730 }} spinal cord injury.{{cite journal |journal=Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology |year=2006 |doi=10.1007/s10571-006-9007-2|citeseerx=10.1.1.147.1912 |title=Bone Marrow Stem Cells and Polymer Hydrogels—Two Strategies for Spinal Cord Injury Repair |last1=Syková |first1=Eva |last2=Jendelová |first2=Pavla |last3=Urdzíková |first3=Lucia |last4=Lesný |first4=Petr |last5=Hejčl |first5=Aleš |volume=26 |issue=7–8 |pages=1111–1127 |pmid=16633897 |s2cid=17405193 }}{{Cite web |url=http://stary.lf2.cuni.cz/Informace/vr/2008/bonemarrow.pdf |title=Autologous bone marrow transplantation in patients with sub-acute and chronic spinal cord injury |work=Cell transplanation, Volume 15 |date=2006 |access-date=2015-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117023749/http://stary.lf2.cuni.cz/Informace/vr/2008/bonemarrow.pdf |archive-date=2015-11-17 |url-status=dead}}{{cite journal |url=http://www.biomed.cas.cz/physiolres/pdf/57%20Suppl%203/57_S121.pdf |title=Biocompatible Hydrogels in Spinal Cord Injury Repair |journal= Physiological Research|year=2008 |doi=10.33549/physiolres.931606 |last1=Hejčl |first1=A. |last2=Lesný |first2=P. |last3=Přádný |first3=M. |last4=Michálek |first4=J. |last5=Jendelová |first5=P. |last6=Štulík |first6=J. |last7=Syková |first7=E. |volume=57 |issue=Suppl 3 |pages=S121–S132 |pmid=18481908 }} She is currently leading several clinical studies, including a Phase I/II study in patients with spinal cord injury as well as ongoing clinical studies of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and ischemic leg injury.{{cite book|title=Neurotrauma: New Insights into Pathology and Treatment|author=Sykova E and Jendelova P |chapter=In vivo tracking of stem cells in brain and spinal cord injury | pmid=17618991 | doi=10.1016/S0079-6123(06)61026-1|isbn=9780444530172 |volume=161|pages=367–83|series= Progress in Brain Research|year=2007}} She was director of Institute of Experimental Medicine and the head of the Center for Cell Therapy and Tissue Repair at Charles University in Prague. Syková is author of 421 publications and co-holder of 7 patents{{Cite web |url=http://www.vyzkum.cz/FrontMedailonekDetail.aspx?idsekce=662&kod=RADA&idm=726298 |title=prof. MUDr. Eva Syková, DrSc, FCMA |website=/www.vyzkum.cz |access-date=2015-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117022127/http://www.vyzkum.cz/FrontMedailonekDetail.aspx?idsekce=662&kod=RADA&idm=726298 |archive-date=2015-11-17 |url-status=dead}} with an H-index of 50.Web of Science, 23. 9. 2014{{cite web |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/remedic/workinggroups/CzechRepublicGroup/CzechRepublicGroup.html |title=Remedic – Regenerative Medicine Home Page |work=helsinki.fi}}