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.

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26 Jun

Department of Biology joins International Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute is a project for which almost 1.5 billion crowns have been allocated for the period of 3.5 years from the resources of the National Recovery Plan (NPO) - specifically from the EXCELES program of the Ministry of Education. Prof. Slabý, the head of the Dept. of Biology, is the coordinator of this project at Masaryk University.

15 Jan

Professor Šmajs' team published in the New England Journal of Medicine!

Professor David Šmajs' team from the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, in collaboration with international researchers published a research article about yaws eradication strategy in The New England Journal of Medicine.

13 Dec 2021

Head of the Department of Biology was a government commissioner, pedagogue and scientist for a year

Molecular biologist, Ondřej Slabý, who works as the Head the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Medicine MU and leads a research group at CEITEC MU, resigned from the position of government commissioner for science and research in health care.

27 Nov 2021

Three scientists from the Department of Biology received the MUNI Scientist award

The Masaryk University Grant Agency awarded the MUNI SCIENTIST prize for the second time for significant achievements in the field of research. Of the five nominated researchers and their teams, Lumír Krejčí and Pavel Krejčí and Michaela Bosáková, all from the Department of Biology, were awarded for the Faculty of Medicine.

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