In January, the newly established International Scientific Advisory Board of the Department of Biology held its first online meeting. Composed of five renowned international scientists, this advisory body will play a key role in the regular evaluation of the department and its research teams, helping to maintain the highest standards of scientific excellence.
In December 2025, the Department of Biology established the International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB), consisting of five distinguished international experts. The board’s mission is to provide independent expert evaluation of the department’s activities and research groups and to support their further development at the international level.
The first online meeting of the ISAB took place in January 2026 and was attended by the Head of the Department of Biology, Prof. Ondřej Slabý. The meeting focused on introducing the department and its research groups, defining the goals, criteria, and grading of the evaluation process, setting the date for the onsite visit, and assigning individual research groups to the evaluators.
In March 2026, a two-day onsite visit will take place at the Department of Biology, attended by members of the International Scientific Advisory Board and all research groups of the department. The visit will focus on a detailed assessment of scientific activities, presentations of achieved results, and discussions on the future direction of the department and its research teams.
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.
