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".
On Friday 6.10. our department participated in the Reseachers´ Night. We had prepared a workshop for the visitors on the topic of the Secret of the Tumor Cell. We talked about what must gradually happen in a cell in order for it to turn into a tumor cell.
We had prepared a small quiz with rewards for the participants, and they could also try to "figure out" the consequences of changing a single "letter" in our DNA. Those interested could view tumor cells under a microscope and peek under the hood of the work of a pathologist who evaluates the microscopic image of a tumor.
And last but not least, we talked about the possibilities of modern oncology and about innovative approaches in diagnosis and treatment.
In the latest grant calls of the Czech Health Research Council (AZV ČR) and the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) for 2026, a total of eight projects by researchers from the Biology department, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, were supported.
The first joint conference of the European Partnership for Personalized Medicine and the International Consortium for Personalized Medicine took place in Prague at the end of November. The Czech Republic was represented at the conference by Ondřej Slabý, Head of the Biology department, Faculty of Medicine, Head of the Center for Precision Medicine, Brno University Hospital, Masaryk University, and Chairman of the Agency for Health Research of the Czech Republic, and Pavel Doleček, Member of the Board of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.
