Vojtěch Kamarád was born on August 10, 1949 in Štěpánov. He received his MD from the Faculty of Medicine, Palacký University in Olomouc in 1973. Then he took a position at the Department of Histology and Embryology where he later became associate professor (1982). In 1995 Dr. Kamarád decided to leave academia and became a product specialist for pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough. Three years later Dr. Kamarád took the position of Medical Affairs Manager within that company; a job that also involves planning and running clinical studies phase I–IV. Current employment of Dr. Kamarád, starting in 2000, is with IVAX Pharmaceutical s.r.o. His research is focused on structure and ultrastructure of gonads, radiation pathology, and various structural aspects of radioprotective agents. Dr. Kamarád is a member of Clinical Trials Association in Prague, and Association of Clinical Research Professionals in London.