Olga Hudlická

Olga Hudlická (11 July 1926 – 3 May 2014) was a Czech-British physiologist. She fled the normalization of communism in Czechoslovakia and moved to England. Working at the University of Birmingham, she studied blood flow and restriction, as well as capillary growth in cardiac and skeletal muscles.

Early life Olga Hudlická was born on 11 July 1926 Přelouč, Czechoslovakia to Marie (née Babáčková) and Jaroslav Hudlický. Her mother worked as a clerk and her father was an engineer in Přelouč. Hudlická began her schooling in Olomouc and then completed her secondary education in Prague. During her schooling, the Nazis invaded and occupied her homeland. That same year, she married a physician who worked at Prague's main hospital, Andrei Klein. and the Malpighi Award of the European Society for Microcirculation in 2008.

After her retirement in 1993, Hudlická continued working as a professor emeritus and continued practicing in surgery and conducting research. Among works she published were Application of Muscle/Nerve Stimulation in Health and Disease in 2008 and several cookbooks detailing recipes to treat specific types of ailments and disease.

Death and legacy Hudlická died on 3 May 2014, after a fall. Her work on the mechanisms regulating the growth of capillaries, how cancerous tumors are invaded by blood vessels and new blood vessels are formed, provided fundamental understanding of muscle performance and therapeutic approaches which can be used to alleviate vascular disease.