At the beginning of October, a meeting of Supervisory Board and International Science and Advisory Board of FNUSA-ICRC was held in the premises of ICRC. This panel for monitoring and evaluating the progress of our research teams was held for the fifth time. The meeting began by Dr. Stokin and his speech, the presentation of all […]
Research collaboration between the International Clinical Research Centre of St Anne’s University Hospital in Brno (FNUSA-ICRC) and the prestigious Mayo Clinic research hospital has been expanded. The Sleep Medicine research team established collaboration with Dr. Lyle J. Olson from the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic. Collaboration focuses on breathing disorders and post-surgery complications, especially […]
FNUSA-ICRC Chair Dr. Gorazd Bernard Stokin delivered a speech in Hong Kong to 2000-guest-audience on “Axons, Transport, Alzheimer’s Disease and Beyond”. In his talk he addressed various topics regarding the most common neurodegenerative disorder. Clinically, Alzheimer’s disease consists in acquired progressive behavioral changes and cognitive decline, while pathologically it is characterized by synaptic and neuronal loss. […]
In the middle of September, a delegation from FNUSA-ICRC visited Japan and engaged in various activities during its stay in the Land of the Rising Sun. Scientists from the Center for Translational Medicine (CTM) of FNUSA-ICRC presented their research at TERMIS World Congress 2018 in Kyoto. The conference was a premier event for the dissemination of […]
In the middle of September, the 46th traditional Czech and Slovak Cerebrovascular Congress was held in Mikulov. This year, Stroke research team was also actively involved in the program of one of the Europe’s oldest scientific and educational events in Europe in the cerebrovascular field. Assoc. Prof. Robert Mikulík, the Head of the research team, presented the […]
Valentina Lacovich is a scientist from International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno and a member of Translational Neuroscience and Aging Program. Last year, she was awarded by The Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment for her research regarding the origins of degenerative brain diseases. She discovered a […]
An American patent for a new technology that can determine the electrical activation of the heart chambers and measure their mutual delays with the accuracy of milliseconds was obtained by scientists of FNUSA-ICRC, the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS and M&I Praha company. The technology that uses high-frequency components in the ECG signal was discovered […]
The Principal Investigator of Dementia research team of FNUSA-ICRC Prof. Jakub Hort and the senior researcher of the team Assoc. Prof. Jan Laczó are co-authors of the manuscript that has been published in the prestigious international scientific journal Nature Reviews Neurology with an impact factor of 19,819. Congratulations! The review article entitled “Spatial navigation deficits – overlooked cognitive […]
Pratiksha Bhat “FNUSA-ICRC is a very good place to learn and improve my knowledge professionally as there is a lot of opportunity to learn and grow in this institute.” You come from India. What have you studied there? I have studied Biotechnology and I am in the process of completing my PhD. Why did you […]
A bilateral cooperation agreement with the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice has been signed, specifically between the FNUSA-ICRC research team Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology Team and the Polish team of Clinical Cardiology and Structural Heart Diseases. The purpose of the agreement is to strengthen cooperation between the scientific communities, in particular through the exchange of scientists and […]
