Eliska is a part of the Tissue Engineering Group, where she helps with solving cultured meat challenges using her molecular cloning and cell culture expertise, as well as freshly adopted skills, like metabolic profiling, biomass quantification, cell embedding strategies and co-culturing bioreactor design.

She graduated with a master’s degree in Cell Physiology from Charles University in Prague, where she received several scholarships for her extraordinary academic performance. As her undergraduate research work, she was investigating physical protein interactions in Gene Expression Regulation lab.

Later, as a research assistant at the Department of Medical Biology of University of South Bohemia, she contributed to several different scientific projects as she co-worked closely with the physicists and the chemists. It gave her an insight into a broad range of methods, from atomic spectroscopy, protein purification, to measuring of growth of bacterial or mammalian cell cultures. She contributed to development of antimicrobial surfaces, biosensors, and to revealing mechanisms of tick born diseases transfer. She also worked as a medical tester for COVID-19 for 10 months, supporting the university’s efforts to prevent and monitor the spread of the virus.