Laudatio to Professor Otto Schück on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

sociation, Czech Society of Internal Medicine, European Society of Internal Medicine, European Society of Clinical Investigation, New York Academy of Sciences and International Society of Clinical Pharmacology. During his long and yet unfinished scientific career he has obtained many awards, e.g. Jan Brod Award, award of the Czechoslovak and Czech Society of Nephrology, Jan Nedved Award, Bruno Watshinger Award, Award of the Czech Society of Internal Medicine and the Award of the Czech Medical Association. Professor Schück was a dedicated pregraduate and postgraduate teacher and author of the most important Professor Otto Schück, one of the founders of the Czech Society of Nephrology and its past president, was born on August 26, 1926 in Prague. He graduated from the Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague in 1950 and became PhD in the same medical school in 1956. After graduation he was for less than 1 year a house officer in the Department of Medicine of the Medical Faculty in Pilsen and then he moved to the 1st Department of Medicine of the General University Hospital in Prague where he worked in 1950–1961. The longest period of his scientific life he spent in Prague – Krč, in 1961– 1970 in the Research Institute of the Experimental Therapy, in 1970–1980 in the 3rd Internal Research Base of the Institute of the Clinical and Experimental Medicine and since 1980 until 2005 in the Department of Nephrology of the same Institute. Currently, he is still active as a consultant of the Division of Nephrology of the Department of Medicine in the Faculty Hospital in Prague – Motol. Dr. Schück became the Associate Professor of Medicine in 1965 and full Professor of Medicine in 1988 in Charles University in Prague. He was the head of the Division of Nephrology of the Institute of the Postgraduate Education in 1980–1995. Dr. Schück spent a year in 1965–1966 as a research fellow at the University of Manchester. Professor Schück has been a member of many national and international societies, e.g. Czechoslovak and Czech Society of Nephrology (he served as a president of the society in 1990–1996), Slovak Society of Nephrology, International Society of Nephrology, European Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplantation AsPublished online: December 5, 2006