Connecting cutting-edge cancer research and oncology education
3nodes
Prague, Brno, Olomouc
5
research programmes
11
research institutes
71
research teams
1shared goal
progress in the fight against cancer
News and announcements
2. 7. 2024
On 24-25 June 2024, the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute hosted prominent foreign experts focusing on neuro-oncology. The conference "Current challenges in neurooncology: meet the Young Neuro-Oncologist experts", which was also held under the auspices of the National Institute for Cancer Research, featured lectures by Johnny Duerinck, Alessia Pellerino, Marjolein Geurts and Johan A. F. Koekkoek, as well as domestic speakers Tomáš Kazda, Michal Hendrych and Petr Výmola.
19. 6. 2024
We would like to invite you to the Matthew Vander Heiden’s expert lecture, a leading figure in cancer metabolism and the director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Biology at MIT, which will give a seminar about their work at Biocev (the main auditorium) next Tuesday, June 25, at 14.00 hours.
Key persons
Prof. MUDr. Aleksi Šedo, DrSc.
Principal investigator of the project and Director of the National Institute for Cancer Research
Head of the Prague node
Head of research programme Molecular Foundation of Cancers and Molecular Goals
Head of research programme Molecular Foundation of Cancers and Molecular Goals
Prof. RNDr. Ondřej Slabý, Ph.D.
Scientific Director of the National Institute for Cancer Research
Head of the Brno node
Head of research programme Biomarkers of Cancers and Diagnostics of Cancers
Home institution: Faculty of Medicine and Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) of the Masaryk University
Doc. MUDr. Marián Hajdúch, Ph.D.
Medical Director of the National Institute for Cancer Research
Head of the Olomouc node
Head of the research programme Research and development of anticancer pharmaceuticals and therapeutic methods
Home institution: Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University