Václav Hampl

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

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Hampl was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1962 and received a Ph.D. 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 rector of Charles University.