St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno is one of two hospitals in the Czech Republic for patients with severe COVID-19 disease. Dozens of companies, organizations and individuals have come to the hospital in the past days to offer help – with sewing masks, material or financial support. „”It is amazing how many people and companies want […]
St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno (FNUSA) received almost CZK 48 million from a public tender from the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic to support applied medical research. Of the record number of fifty projects prepared, eleven succeeded. “In a extremely busy competition, success of over twenty percent is a great result. It is […]
In May last year, the researchers of the Center for Cell and Tissue Engineering of the International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno (FNUSA-ICRC) and the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University started research of cellular immunity against COVID-19 disease. Since then, the researchers obtained blood samples from dozens of volunteers and […]
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a congenital disease caused by a mutation in the gene encoding the dystrophin protein. It is a deadly, as yet incurable disease that occurs in boys. DMD is manifested mainly by skeletal muscle damage, but also by heart dysfunction. Assessment of the early stages of cardiac involvement by echocardiography is […]
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which falls on 11 February each year, aims to celebrate the achievements of women scientists in 2020. This international day was declared by the UN General Assembly at the end of 2015. It aims to recall the crucial role of women and girls in science and […]
St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno (FNUSA) started building its own cannabis growing room in Brno. It will be used by researchers from the International Clinical Research Center (FNUSA-ICRC) who are researching medical cannabis. The cannabis research plant is the basic infrastructure of the Cannabis Research Center (CRC). According to experts from FNUSA-ICRC, this is a […]
At the last summit of the World Health Organization (WHO), which took place on January 21, experts focused mainly on the dangers of a slightly underestimated disease, namely diabetes. The final report highlights that diabetes became one of the top 10 causes of death in 2019, an increase of 70 percent since 2000. It literally […]
RNDr. Jan Fröhlich, Ph.D. and Manlio Vinciguerra, Ph.D., MSc of the Epigenetics, Metabolism and Aging Research Team, published a successful review in the journal Geroscience summarizing current knowledge on the effects of GDF11 on the development and progression of fibrotic lesions (scar tissue) in various organ systems. In recent years, the GDF11 protein has received […]
Alliance4Life’s new project A4L_ACTIONS, submitted under the Horizon 2020 programme, has been selected for funding. Alliance4Life’s next three years will thus be co-financed with a grant of 2 mil. EUR, which will allow a number of already successfully piloted good practices to be put into action. The Alliance4Life started as a project initiated by CEITEC […]
On Thursday, January 14, 2021, with the participation of the Rector of Masaryk University, prof. MUDr. Martin Bareš, Ph.D., director of the St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno Ing. Vlastimil Vajdák, vice-rector for research and doctoral studies at MU prof. RNDr. Šárka Pospíšilová, Ph.D. and the executive director of the International Clinicla Research of St. Anne’s […]
