• 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 programmes

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research institutes

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research teams

1shared goal

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

12. 9. 2025

NICR Summer School: Future Scientists in Action!

Four leading research institutions, five days, and six motivated high school students who immersed themselves in the world of scientific discovery. For the very first time, the National Institute for Cancer Research (NICR) organized a Summer School for secondary school students, offering them a unique opportunity to experience first-hand what it means to work in research teams.
8. 9. 2025

NICR at the Society for Histochemistry Congress

At the end of the summer holidays, Martin Sztacho, whose research group at NICR focuses on the architecture of cancer cells, actively participated in the 17th International Congress of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. The program featured the latest insights in histochemistry and cytochemistry applied in medicine, biology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence.

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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