Jan Novak

Dr. Novak is one of the world's leading experts in the pathology of IgA nephropathy. He received his Doctorate in Biology degree from Charles University in Prague and Ph.D. from the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Dr. Novak has 22 years of experience in IgA nephropathy research. His research group discovered the presence of autoantibodies involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. This discovery is the basis for the assays being developed by Reliant Glycosciences, LLC for IgA nephropathy.