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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.

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. 

Under the auspices of the National Cancer Research Institute, a brainstorming meeting - mini-symposium "Fighting Cancer Development" was held in Dresden on 27-28 May, organized by Meritxell Alberich Jordà from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the CAS.

Mark your calendars for the upcoming 3rd 10x Genomics Experience Meeting, scheduled for May 14th, 2024, from 8:30 to 16:30 at IMG (Hašek's auditorium).

We would like to thank the team of administrators from the Ministry of Education, whom we met during the on-site project visit in Olomouc, for their professional and thorough work in auditing the progress of the NICR so far.

Second patient conference focused on hormone-dependent cancers, such as breast or prostate cancer.

Under the auspices of the National Institute for Cancer Research (NICR), an elective course on New Directions in Morphological Research was held at the First Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in recent weeks.