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2. 4. 2025

About gene expression regulation with Kurumi Nishimagi

On the last day of March, Kurumi Nishimagi from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, visited the Laboratory of Cancer Cell Architecture at the NICR, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University. At her home institution she is involved in research within the Usage of Synchrotron Light for Life Science programme, focusing, among others, on mechanisms of functional regulation of the genome and their application to the control of genomic functions.
4. 12. 2024

Talented high school students in the labs!

Nearly a hundred selected high school students had the opportunity to visit some of the National Cancer Institute's research teams' laboratories during October and November. During intensive interactive workshops, they were able to experience how science is done, at least for a short while.
2. 7. 2024

Current challenges in neurooncology

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

Invitation to the Matthew Vander Heiden’s expert lecture

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. 
13. 5. 2024

Memorandum of Mutual Scientific Cooperation

In the last week of April, the directors of four NPO Exceles projects - the National Institute for Cancer Research (NICR), the National Institute for Socioeconomic Impact of Disease and Systemic Risk Research (SYRI), the National Institute of Virology and Bacteriology (NIVB) and the National Institute for Neurological Research (NINR) - signed a Memorandum of Mutual Scientific Cooperation.