At the celebratory evening of the Engineering Academy in the Bethlehem Chapel on 21.11.2018, the Preciosa Foundation Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis was given to Pavel Bláha. The awarded work "Induction of HPRT mutations in mammalian cells after irradiation with heavy ions" was prepared at the FNSPE, CTU in Prague and in the Laboratory of Radiation Biology, JINR, Dubna.