University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J. Mestecky completed his MD at Charles University and PhD at the Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic. He obtained honorary doctorate degrees from Denmark, Sweden and the Czech Republic. He is a Professor of Microbiology and Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has published 605 papers in respected journals and served as a co-author and editor of 16 books focusing on mucosal immunology and published by Elsevier/Academic Press and Plenum Press.