We received 5 Norwegian researchers/phd students from the Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo within the Czech-Norwegian Research Programme (CZ09) "Deciphering synaptopathy in Schizophrenia". This grant supports the cooperation between the labs of Yuh-Man Wadeley in Brno and Joel Glover in Oslo. 4 Czech researchers/phd student/postdoc visited the Oslo lab in April 2017.
A team of scientists led by the head of the research group at the Department of Biology, Nicola Silva, has made a significant achievement in research into the reduced or impaired function of the Synaptonemal complex, which may be one of the causes of sterility. The paper by an international team of authors was published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Communications in March 2025.
NICR - National Institute for Cancer Research - the largest academic oncology project in the Czech Republic has published a new episode of the Mezi buňky podcast entitled "How precision medicine is sewn".In this episode, prof. Jaroslav Štěrba, head of the Department of Pediatric Oncology at the Brno FN and Faculty of Medicine MU and NICR scientific director , and prof. Ondřej Slabý, head of the Precision Medicine Center FN Brno, head of the Translational Tumor Genomics research group at the NICR and head of the Biology department at the Faculty of Medicine MU talk about the benefits of precision medicine in oncology.
