Department of Biology

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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7 Nov

Childhood Oncology Fundraising Event

The Andrysik Lab from the Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, partnered with The Krtek Children's Oncology Endowment Fund to host a successful fundraising event benefiting children with cancer.

23 Oct

Young Scientists Present Their Discoveries: PhD Conference in Biomedical Sciences 2025

The Biology department is once again organizing the Annual PhD Conference in Biomedical Sciences, which will take place on the 5th - 6th of November 2025 at the University Campus in Brno.
More than 60 PhD students from various departments of the Faculty of Medicine, CEITEC MU, and FNUSA-ICRC will present the progress and results of their doctoral research in the field of biomedicine.

20 Sep

Carfilzomib more effective and safer: new possibilities in myeloma treatment

An international team of scientists from Lenka Bešše's laboratory at the Department of Biology and colleagues from German and Swiss institutions have published joint research results on the effects of proteasome inhibition in multiple myeloma. These results offer new possibilities for using already approved and clinically available drugs.

1 Sep

Cilia in focus: Discovery of a new cell signaling mechanism may advance treatment of developmental diseases and tumors

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from laboratories at the Department of Biology and the Department of Histology and Embryology at Masaryk University, CEITEC MU, and the University of Oslo has described a new mechanism by which cilia influence cell fate.

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