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Following four successful calls since 2009, JIC launches its sixth call for JIC | Innovation Vouchers on March 12th. Applications may be submitted by innovative companies from all over the world. Subsidies worth up to 4.000 EUR will cover 75 % of the overall costs of the pursued projects. The city of Brno will distribute more than 160.000 EUR in total.

As a part of a business mission to Central Europe, the British Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Lord Livingston, visited the CEITEC MU laboratories with the most powerful nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer in Central and Eastern Europe. 

The Central European Institute of Technology - Masaryk University (CEITEC MU) is the only institution in the Czech Republic to win a prestigious European grant from the “ERA Chairs” programme. Financial support to the tune of EUR 2.2 million makes it possible to take on a top-class scientist who, with their research team, will expand our understanding in the fields of chemical and cell biology. 

The Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) has become a member of the EU-LIFE consortium, made up of the thirteen best European research institutes in the life sciences. CEITEC is the only research organisation from the new member states of the EU to joint his group.

On 19th December 2013, Prof. Sarka Pospisilova, Dr. Jitka Malcikova, Dr. Martin Trbusek and the team of their international collaborators won an Award of the dean of the Medical faculty MU for outstanding achievement in development of clinical medicine for their publication „ERIC recommendations on TP53 mutation analysis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia“  in prestigious journal Leukemia (impact factor 10.164).

On 5 December 2013 Prof. Alexandra Šulcová, the Experimental and Applied Neuropsychopharmacology research group leader at CEITEC MU, received the Milada Paulová Award, awarded to females for their lifetime achievements in science. 

Full versions of all publications can be downloaded by clicking on the titles.   Physical Review Letters Interface-Induced Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Hydrogenated Epitaxial Graphene Giesbers A., Uhlířová K.,…

Karel Říha has received an EMBO Installation Grant and is the only Czech scientist to have done so in 2013. EMBO – the European Molecular Biology Organization gives grants once a year and this year has awarded it to six scientists from the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. The EMBO Installation Grant enables the successful researchers to establish their own research group in the country of their origin. 

On November 26, Dr. Niklas Blomberg, ELIXIR Director, delivered a lecture in Brno. The goal of ELIXIR is to orchestrate the collection, quality control and archiving of large amounts of biological data produced by life science experiments. Some of these datasets are highly specialised and would previously only have been available to researchers within the country in which they were generated.

The company Leica, producing advanced microscope technology, opens a competition every year, where scientists enter interesting photographs created by microscopic technology. Out of these pictures a jury of experts chooses 12 photographs, which will be shown in the company calendar for the next year.  Out of a huge number of competing photographs, there are also two pictures by two PhD students - Lucie Nováková and Kristína Kovačovicová - representing the CEITEC Veterinary Research Institute, which have been selected.