Since 2017, the International Centre of Clinical Research at St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno (FNUSA-ICRC) has been part of the European Sleep Apnea Database (ESADA) project. The Centre in Brno has provided data on more than 700 patients and is now among two institutions with the highest number of patients included in the project […]
Collaboration in research as well as training were the topics discussed today during the visit of Vice-President and General Manager for Global Research Bram Stolk and a group of other high-ranking research managers from GE Healthcare to the International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne´s University Hospital in Brno, Czech Republic (FNUSA-ICRC). GE Healthcare, the […]
We hosted an honorable visit to the corporate sector yesterday at FNUSA-ICRC, high-ranking research executives from GE Healthcare, one of the 5 largest medical technology company in the world. We have discussed the possibilities of mutual cooperation in research and education. We have also presented a new type of high-frequency ECG, to which we have an […]
The head of our Medicinal Chemistry research team, Assoc. Prof. Kamil Paruch and other scientists from a broader group of biomolecular and cellular engineering contributed to an article published by Angewandte Chemie with an impact factor of 12.102. The article titled Furo[3,2-b]pyridine: A Privileged Scaffold for Highly Selective Kinase Inhibitors and Effective Modulators of the Hedgehog Pathway […]
Bioinformatics and experimental biologists from Loschmidt Laboratories and the FNUSA-ICRC Protein Engineering research team, led by Prof. Jiří Damborský and Prof. Zbyněk Prokop, worked together with a Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry Arieh Warshel, who received the award in 2013 for the development of computer models of complex chemical systems. Scientists have engaged in enzymatic […]
Information about our center is now available at www.brnoregion.com. The website introduces the city of Brno and the life in it to foreigners. It attracts them to study in Brno or to work in one of its companies or institutions. Besides the brief introduction of the center, you can also read a short commentary from one of our researchers. Ana Rubina Perestrelo is […]
FNUSA-ICRC was privileged to host Dr. Sabine Ernst from Faculty of Medicine and National Heart & Lung Institute of Imperial College London. Visit of Dr. Ernst was a part of the proces of setting-up collaboration between both institutions in the field of cardiology. Prior to the visit of Dr. Ernst there were several meetings in Munich […]
Almost 23,000 people in the Czech Republic suffer from acute myocardial infarction every year. Those who get to a specialized cardiac centre in time stand a good chance of survival. However, one-third of the patients soon return to hospital with another heart attack. The mortality rate in such patients is much higher, up to three […]
In December, Dr. Petra Šedová of our Cerebrovascular Research Team received the Martina Roesel Memorial Grant for 2018. It is a grant to women-scientists seeking to combine quality care for their preschool children with their research career. The annual grant of 120,000 CZK is designed to help finance babysitting and other neds of working mothers. […]
The third Alliance4Life project meeting took place in Zagreb, Croatia, in early December. All focus groups participated in various lectures and workshops and, in conclusion, suggested follow-up procedures, trainings and objectives for further joint strategies and policy interventions. Alliance4Life is a bottom-up initiative of ten leading life science institutions from nine EU-13 countries that aim at […]
