[1] On December 2, 1969, she defended her doctorate at the Institute of Microbiology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

Whilst chemotherapy can suppress the size of tumours, because it is non-specific there are several well-known side effects.

By encouraging the immune response within the tumour cells themselves, Říhová avoids any of the side effects of chemotherapy.

This type of treatment may decrease the amount of time that cancer patients need to spend in hospital.

[7][8] She called for people to wear face masks to prevent the spread of the disease,[9] because asymptomatic carriers will not know that they are vectors.

[10][11] In late April Říhová remarked that lifting of strict quarantine should only happen gradually, during which time there should be constant monitoring and testing.