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Read the article in Science Magazine about the launching session of EU-Life initiative. CEITEC joined forces with top research centres in life sciences to support and strengthen European research excellence!

European research centres in life sciences gather to foster excellence in research, share knowledge, and influence policy.

Young scientists from CEITEC BUT (Central European Institute of Technology, BUT) and IPE BUT (Institute of Physical Engineering, BUT) have discovered new ways of controlling magnetic vortices, which can be used for example in fabrication of a new kind of computer memory. The Brno scientists worked on the experimental verification of the corresponding theory with their colleagues from the University of California in San Diego and the synchrotron laboratory in Berkeley. The results of their research are so interesting and innovative that they have been published in the May edition of the prestigious scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology.

CEITEC MU scientist Dalibor Blažek received a prestigious Pilot Study Award from the American foundation Marsha Rivkin Center which finances ovarian cancer research. The Center provides grants to scientists whose research is innovative and has clear potential to get a new insight into the molecular mechanism of development of ovarian cancer, which can help to promote the timely detection of this horrible disease and its successful therapy. Scientists receiving these awards usually come from the top American universities, which makes the success of the CEITEC scientist more remarkable.

The Josef Dadok National NMR Centre was ceremonially inaugurated on January 23, 2013 with the participation of Tomáš Hruda, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, Mikuláš Bek, Rector of Masaryk University, Markus Dettenhofer, CEITEC Executive director, Jaroslav Koča, CEITEC Scientific Director for Life Sciences, Vladimír Sklenář, Coordinator of Structure Biology programme, David Stuart, Coordinator of Instruct, Claudio Luchinat, Coordinator of Bio-NMR, and more than 250 participants. Our special guest Josef Dadok introduced the history of NMR spectroscopy in Czechoslovakia and his great contribution to the development of this method, mainly in USA where he leftfor an internship and did not return after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.

Students from the Genetics and Reproduction Department, Martin Šodek and Thuraya Awadová from the Martin Anger laboratory (CEITEC VRI) participated in the competition Huygens Image Contest 2012 organized by the company SVI.

Lukáš Trantírek has won an EMBO Installation Grant and become the only Czech scientist to receive this grant in 2012. Once a year, EMBO, the European Molecular Biology Organization, awards grants to ten young scientists from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Portugal and Turkey.  The EMBO Installation grant makes it possible for young scientists to become independent and set up their own research groups in  their countries of origin.