Biologický ústav

About department

Department of Biology is one of the oldest theoretical departments at Masaryk University. It was established in 1919. The first chair of the Department Edward Babák is an author of the General Biology teaching concept for all medical faculties. Currently, the Department provides both theoretical and practical education of Medical Biology for Czech and International students. As a centre of excellent international biomedical research it also coordinates a PhD school in Biomedical Sciences.

News

1 Feb

Ondřej Slabý is a new chairman of Czech Grant Agency for Health Research

Ondřej Slabý, head of the Biology Department at the Faculty of Medicine, was appointed the new chairman of Czech Grant Agency for Health Research.

17 Jan

Scientists at the Biology Department received two GAČR grants this year

Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) will support 2 new research projects at the Biology Department. Specifically, these are standard projects with a duration of 3 years in the research groups leaded by Professor David Šmajs and Doctor Nicola Silva.

24 Nov 2022

Another award for our student at the Student Scientific Conference

For her project on the regulation of AMPK in malignant melanoma, Natália Vadovičová, a PhD student at the Dept. of Biology, was awarded again, this time at the 66th Student Scientific Conference of the FM MU.

9 Nov 2022

PhD conference in Biomedical Sciences 2022 is coming soon

We would like to invite you to the Annual PhD Conference of Biomedical Sciences PhD program, this year the conference will take place on November 21-24, 2022 at the MU Brno University Campus (building C03, room 117). The goal of the conference is to exchange experience and support communication between doctoral students and their supervisors from different institutes and scientific fields.

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