• Aleksi Šedo
    Biomedical science is trying to find ways to help patients whom clinical medicine so far cannot help.
    Aleksi Šedo
  • Ondřej Slabý
    Cancer research that really helps is always based on intensive interdisciplinary collaboration.
    Ondřej Slabý
  • Marián Hajdúch
    Our research teams make constant, incremental progress in both diagnosing and treating cancers – and they will never give up in fighting this enemy.
    Marián Hajdúch
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Prague, Brno, Olomouc

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research institutes

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progress in the fight against cancer

About us


Research of cancers represents about 25% of all biomedical research in the Czech Republic. It is an area that has a long tradition in our country and its current results are, in international comparison, above the average.


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News and announcements

10. 10. 2025

Baking for the Fund Krtek #2

Sweeten up the penultimate Friday in October and support a good cause! Come on 24 October 2025 between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. to Camus Square Shopping Centre in Brno to taste what Zdeněk Andrysík from the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University, members of his research group and other colleagues from NICR have baked for you. Proceeds from this second charity bake sale will be donated to the Fund Krtek.
3. 10. 2025

Researchers’ Night with NÚVR in the Rhythm of Blues

As dusk fell on 26 September, the Academic Club of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, in Prague’s Faust House filled to capacity. On the occasion of Researchers’ Night, the National Institute for Cancer Research welcomed all those who are curious about the unknown and unexplored.

Collaboration


In addition to several large European and Czech scientific infrastructures, the National Institute for Cancer Research will also cooperate with various university hospitals, pharmaceutic or biotechnological companies, patient organisations, and other partners.


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