Press Releases

Two new research groups were established at CEITEC MU in July. They will deal with the research area leading to more accurate diagnosis and better focused therapy not only for neoplastic diseases but also for other illnesses. Both newly appointed leaders, Michal Šmída and Robert Vácha, are bringing to CEITEC long-standing experience from the acknowledged European research institutes, and they both have been chosen on the grounds of their so-far results gained in their fields of research.

Project AutoDrive, financed by ECSEL Joint Undertaking under the Horizont 2020 research and innovation programme, launched its research activities. The aim of the project is the development of technologies for automated and automatic vehicles and their verification.

Neurologists form CEITEC Masaryk University are trying to detect earlier and more accurate neurodegenerative deiseases, such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.

Mary O'Connell, CEITEC MU, was recently elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic (AS CR) and from CEITEC Masaryk University have completed an extensive critical overview of potential impacts of various impurities in iron, nickel and aluminium on material cohesion and its possible sudden failure. The article covering theoretical and experimental results of the Czech experts supplemented by available literature data was published in one of the most reputable journals in the field of materials science, Progress in Material Science, with the impact factor of 31.083. This journal is the third out of 271 journals in the category MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY, so that it belongs nearly to the highest percentile (1.11 %) in this category. 

With their expertise in X-ray computerized tomography, scientists from CEITEC BUT participated in a common research with the Swedish Karolinska Institutet, which is involved in the development and formation of the face in vertebrates. The results of this long-term collaboration are now published in the prestigious eLife magazine.

The prestigious journal Science has now published the results of a study examining new options for developing drugs against parasites of the Trypanosoma genus, which causes sleeping sickness and other diseases. Scientists from CEITEC at Masaryk…

The European Research Council (ERC) is key to excellent basic research, the cornerstone of disruptive innovation. EU-LIFE, the alliance of European research centres in life sciences, urges politicians to unequivocally support the ERC by raising its budget in FP9 and endorsing its guiding principles. At present the innovation potential in Europe can’t be fully exploited because of a lack of funding.

The Czech Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology (CIISB) associating core facilities of research centres BIOCEV and CEITEC for the study of the structure of biomacromolecules has become a full member of an European research infrastructure INSTRUCT. Thanks to this, CIISB has acquired a direct access to users from the academic and industrial sphere of the European research area, to which they can now offer its services and expertise under the auspices of the European research infrastructure INSTRUCT.     

The catalogue of services that will be jointly offered to corporations and academic institutions will be compiled by CEITEC Masaryk University in co-operation with the VBCF Research Institute of Vienna and three other partners. CEITEC MU has obtained financing for the pilot project that will enable more efficient use of the technological equipment, knowledge and experience in the field of life and material sciences from Interreg AT-CZ, the programme supporting cross-border collaboration.