Národní ústav pro výzkum rakoviny

Biomedical science is trying to find ways to help patients whom clinical medicine so far cannot help.
Aleksi Šedo
Cancer research that really helps is always based on intensive interdisciplinary collaboration.
Ondřej Slabý
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

Connecting cutting-edge cancer research and oncology education

3hubs

Prague, Brno, Olomouc

research programmes

research institutes

research teams

1shared goal

progress in the fight against cancer

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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

5. 7. 2023

4EU+ Against Cancer

2.7.-5.7. the Summer School “4EU+ Against Cancer” was held in Mariánské Lázně, led by […]

26. 5. 2023

Memorandum of Understanding with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

The National Institue for Cancer Research (NICR) entered into a collaborative research agreement in cancer […]

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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Key persons

Management

Prof. MUDr. Aleksi Šedo, DrSc.

Principal investigator of the project and Director of the National Institute for Cancer Research

Head of the Prague hub

+420 224 965 748

director@nuvr.cz

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 hub

+420 549 496 876

scientificdirector@nuvr.cz

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 hub

+420 585 632 082

medicaldirector@nuvr.cz

Head of the research programme Research and development of anticancer pharmaceuticals and therapeutic methods
Home institution: Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University