15 Apr 2024

The Head of Department, Prof. Slabý, was elected by the medical students as the Faculty of the Year!

The Head of the Department of Biology, Prof. Ondřej Slabý, has been elected Academician of the Year for preclinical teaching in a student poll organized by the Medical Students Association. The award ceremony occurred during the 26th Faculty of Medicine and Medical Students Association Representative Ball. Congratulations 😊.

5 Apr 2024

Head of the research group Pavel Krejci in an interview with the Medical Tribune

The head of the research group, Dr. Pavel Krejčí, spoke to Medical Tribune about developing a new drug for patients with achondroplasia, which is now in the phase 2 clinical trial.

15 Mar 2024

The Werner von Siemens award was won by Kateřina Snopková with David Šmajs and doctoral student Veronika Kamenská

For the 26th time, the Werner von Siemens Prizes were awarded to the best students, young scientists and teachers. On Wednesday 13 March, the award for the best dissertation was presented to RNDr. Kateřina Snopková, Ph.D. and prof. MUDr. David Šmajs, Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University.

23 Feb 2024

New junior research group will be established at the Department of Biology

The Internal Grant Agency of the FM MU supported establishing another junior research group in January 2024. Thus, a research group of Zdeněk Andrysík is being established at the Department of Biology, which will focus on molecular mechanisms of cancer.

16 Feb 2024

We will welcome new doctoral students at the PhD Welcome Day

In the spring semester, we will welcome seven new students to the Biomedical Sciences PhD program, two of whom will join the research group of Dr. Nicola Silva at the Department of Biology.

31 Jan 2024

Team of Professor Šmajs described a new strategy for characterizing the human pathogen that causes yaws disease

At the beginning of this year, scientists from the group of Professor David Šmajs in international cooperation published their results in the journal Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases. In the publication, they described a new method for characterizing the bacterium Treponema pallidum, which causes severe yaws disease. These results could help make the ongoing eradication program more efficient.

21 Dec 2023

Success of our PhD student at the International medical doctoral conference 2023

Natália Vadovičová - a PhD student from the research group of Dr. Stjepan Uldrijan - won the award for the second best lecture at the International medical doctoral conference 2023 for the results of her dissertation focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of resistance in melanoma cells.

24 Oct 2023

The Annual PhD Conference in Biomedical Sciences is comming soon

This year, the Biology Department is also organizing the Annual PhD Conference in Biomedical Sciences, which will take place on the 8th-10th of November at the University Campus in Brno. More than 50 PhD students from various departments of the Faculty of Medicine, CEITEC MU and FNUSA-ICRC will present the results of their dissertations in the field of Biomedicine.

10 Oct 2023

The Biology Department participated at the Researchers´ Night

This year, our department participated in the Researchers´ Night. The visitors had a change to join a workshop on "the secret of the tumor cell".

1 Sep 2023

Biology Department organizes a new series of BIOTOP seminars

Biology Department is traditionally preparing a series of BIOTOP seminars that aim to introduce students to career opportunities outside of academia. The seminars are intended for bachelor, master and doctoral students as well as postdoctoral fellows.

30 Jul 2023

The collective of authors from the Biology Department published the second volume of the textbook Medical Biology II

The second volume of the biology textbook covers topics from the role of genetics in modern medicine or Mendel's laws and monogenically inherited diseases, to selected areas of molecular medicine or evolutionary biology.

28 Jun 2023

A new research group was established at the Biology Department

Thanks to the support of the National Institute for Cancer Research, a new research group was opened at the Biology Department of the Faculty of Medicine. The group will be led by Dr. Lenka Bešše. With her team, she will conduct research in the field of cancer immunotherapy.