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The Austrian-Czech Project Offers Researchers the Opportunity to Use a State-of-the-art Infrastructure

The possibility to access a top-class research infrastructure is offered to other entities within the RIAT-CZ project. Upon request, it can be used by non-commercial research institutions and universities from the South Moravian Region, the South Bohemian Region, the Vysočina Region, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and Vienna. Initiated in 2016, the RIAT-CZ project creates synergies between […]

Appointment to Professor

Appointment letters to sixty new professors were awarded by the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports on 18 December. The appointees received the highest academic degree in the Karolinum Large Assembly Hall, Prague. One of them was doc. MUDr. Robert Mikulík, Ph.D. CONGRATULATIONS! Robert MIKULÍK, MD, Ph.D. FESO For over twenty years, he has been […]

FNUSA-ICRC Participated in an Annual EATRIS Meeting

Our representatives participated in the annual meeting of EATRIS, the European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine, in Ljubljana. Assoc. Prof. Irena Koutná and Dr. Pavel Šimara from our Cell & Tissue Engineering Facility presented a poster on their new cGMP facility built in our center. Only few institutions in the Czech Republic have the capacity to […]

A New Collaboration with University of Oxford Established

The Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Group, namely Tomasz Jadczyk with the support of Technology Transfer Office, has established a scientific collaboration with University of Oxford. The ICE research team led by Zdeněk Stárek, MD, PhD, will cooperate with the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, led by Prof. Blanca Rodriguez, PhD. The aim of […]

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The new Czech-Israeli Research Consortium will focus on regenerative medicine

FNUSA-ICRC and a Czech company PrimeCell established a research consortium on innovative regenerative medicine with several Israeli partners, Alpha Net, Pres-By Vision and Chelotech. A memorandum on research cooperation was signed by all partners at the end of November in Jerusalem during an opening ceremony of a state visit of the President of the Czech Republic […]

FNUSA-ICRC hosted the visit of Nick Archer, the new Ambassador of the Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

FNUSA-ICRC cooperates extensively with British scientists and research institutions, despite the British exit from the European Union. FNUSA-ICRC researchers are currently involved in the implementation of several international research projects funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research program, such as the CresPace project led by University of Bath in southwestern England, which aims to develop […]

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Despite BREXIT, Researchers from Brno Develop Collaboration with UK

As surprising as it may seem in light of news surrounding the British exit from the EU, the International Clinical Research Center at St. Anne’s Hospital in Brno (FNUSA-ICRC) have been intensively collaborating with researchers and research institutions from the UK. The Center has been working with them to develop diagnostic and medical equipment and […]

FNUSA-ICRC Presented at MEDICA Trade Fair for Medical Technologies in Düsseldorf

Between November 12 and 15, FNUSA-ICRC took part in MEDICA trade fair for medical technologies in Düsseldorf. The trade fair has a long tradition and is one of the largest and most prestigious events of its kind in the world. The Czech Republic was represented by more than twenty companies and the organization of the stands […]

A kick-off meeting of a CZK 700 million grant was held in FNUSA-ICRC

A kick-off meeting of the unique Molecular, Cell and Clinical Approach to Healthy Aging (ENOCH) project was held in the premises of FNUSA-ICRC. The participants discussed key activities focusing on identifying the treatment of aging affecting diseases, such as dementia, cancer or heart diseases. The ambition of the project is not immortal life but healthy aging […]