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CLARA Young Innovator Award 2026 Announces Its Winners: AI Monitoring of Speech and Movement in Early Alzheimer’s Disease and Brain Chemistry Research Impress Jury
The winners of the inaugural CLARA Young Innovator Award were announced on Friday, May 22, 2026, during the Prague International Health Summit. The jury recognized research projects focused on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and…

“The ICRC Academy reassured me that staying in research is meaningful — at a time when I had almost given up on it,” says Sára Hovanová
ICRC Academy intern Sára Hovanová comes from Košice in eastern Slovakia and is currently studying Neuroscience at Masaryk University. According to Sára, the newly established study programme at the Faculty of Medicine provides a unique opportunity…

Staphylokinase shows great potential in stroke treatment, says award-winning scientist Naina Verma
Naina Verma, a Ph.D. student at the ICRC and the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, focuses on the research and development of proteins for the treatment of blood clots, specifically studying the protein staphylokinase. She specializes…
