An award, a grant and a new position for Tomas Fiala

Branco Weiss Fellow Tomas Fiala will be starting his fully independent career this fall as an assistant professor at Masaryk University back in his hometown, Brno, Czechia. For his move, he secured the MASH Starting Grant—an internal Masaryk University grant for the top new faculty recruits. Dr. Fiala will receive 12’000’000 CZK (ca. 480’000 EUR) in unrestricted funds over four years to launch his group. His “Laboratory of Bioorganic and Peptide Chemistry” will focus on developing molecular probes for answering challenging questions in neuroscience.

In addition, Dr. Fiala has been awarded the Alfred Bader Prize in Bioorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry 2025, recognizing his work on “Chemical Probes for Studying Biological Processes in the Cell Membrane and the Extracellular Space”. The award is a collaboration between the Czech Chemical Society and Bader Philanthropies, a foundation of the late Alfred Bader—a chemist and businessman, founder of Aldrich Chemicals. The prize is awarded to Czech chemists under the age of 35 and comes with prize money of 5’400 USD and an award lecture at the annual “Liblice—Advances in Organic, Bioorganic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry” conference.

Read the news on the Masaryk University’s website