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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.

Full versions of all publications can be downloaded by clicking on the titles.   Current Drug Metabolism Nanocarriers for anticancer drugs - New trends in nanomedicine Drbohlavova J., Chomoucka J., Adam V., Ryvolova M.,…

EMBO today announcedJiří Friml of the Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB and Ghent University, Belgium and Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic as the winner of the 2012 EMBO Gold Medal. Friml receives the award for defining how the plant hormone auxin functions to regulate plant development. He was also recognized for showing how the auxin-governed molecular processes optimise adaptation of plant development and growth to ever-changing environmental conditions.

Experts from the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University (LF MU), have discovered one of the significant factors that influences the origin and development of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Their latest piece of published work is devoted to the role of a gene specified by microRNA-650, whose presence or increased activity is connected with a better prognosis and is also related to the development of the disease.

A member of the Molecular Medicine research programme and doctoral student at Masaryk University, Marek Mráz, received an award from the Minister of Education for his excellent results in the area of leukaemia research. The award ceremony took place on 24 November 2011 in the Great Mirror Hall at the Ministry of Education.

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