2021

• 1st of July Ladislav successfully defended his HDR (habilitation à diriger des recherches) at the Paris Saclay University in front of the scientific committee.  

​

• NeuroPaTick obtained a financial support from LabEx IBEID – Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute, Paris with contribution of ENVA and ANSES. Title: New insights on tick-borne pathogen co-infections. >635,000€, PIs - Sara Moutailler, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz and Ladislav Simo for 2021-2024

​

• Ladislav together with Prof. Daniel Sonenshine (USA), are Guest Editors of a Special Issue in Pathogens (MDPI): 'Tick physiology and behavior"' 

2020

• Alejandro and Ladislav, together with James (Czech Republic) and Dasiel (Canada), are Guest Editors of a Special Issue in Pathogens: 'New Frontiers in Tick Research' check it out !

​

• Alejandro will be a keynote speaker at TTP10, 24 and 28 August 2022. Danube Delta, Romania. If you study ticks, this is the best place to go, check it out !

2019

• Alejandro is Associate Editor in a Research Topic in Frontiers: 'Biological Drivers Of Vector-Pathogen Interactions' check it out !

​

• Research Outreach prepared a very nice article about the Alpha-Gal syndrome and trade-off between allergy and protection to infectious diseases, check it out !

​

• NeuroPaTick organized, with a great help of UMR-BIPAR, ANSES and INRA, the first "French-Czech Tick Meeting (FCTM)" on October 24-25 2019 in Maisons- Alfort, France. More than 30 speakers have announced their super-exciting talks. Great to share ideas with friends in "The City of Light"...  

• Ladislav has become a member of the International Advisory Board for the Biology Centre of Czech Academy of Sciences in Ceske Budejovice (May 2019). For more information check here (i) and here (ii).

​

• NeuroPaTick was awarded by CAMPUS FRANCE for 4,500 Euros over three years to do a tick defensins project with Professor Ana Domingos from IHMT, Lisbon, Portugal (February 2019)

​

​

• Ladislav will be a keynote speaker at the 13th International Symposium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 28–30 March 2019 Weimar, Germany

​

• The abstract of Alejandro was accepted for an ORAL presentation at the 13th International Symposium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 28–30 March 2019 Weimar, Germany

​

                                                                                              2017-2018

​

​

• NeuroPaTick was awarded by DIM1HEALTH for 103,600 Euros. (October 2018)

​

• The scientific results of Alejandro were recognized by the scientific community and in 2017 he was awarded the Odile Bain Memorial Prize for his outstanding contribution to Parasitology.