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4-12 July 2022, Barcelona, Spain / The fourth course on Mouse Embryology, Anatomy, Histology, and Anatomical Basis of Imaging will take place in a dual delivery mode: face-to-face in the Veterinary School at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; and on-line. The aim is to provide graduate, master, PhD and postdoc students with basic and expert… Read more

“Research infrastructures are perfectly positioned to co-work at the frontier of science and industry.”, said Radislav Sedlacek, Director of the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics and the former Chair of the ESFRI Health and Food Strategic Working Group at the EU-AMRI launch event, which took place on 5th April 2022 in Brussels. You can watch the… Read more

8-10 May 2022, Seoul, Republic of Korea / Insights into the gene function that IMPC and INFRAFRONTIER have consistently explored through mouse models play a crucial role in advancing biomedical science. The meeting will bring together IMPC and INFRAFRONTIER delegates across the globe, as well as domestic experts from academia, research institutes, industries and the… Read more

5 April 2022, online / EU-AMRI, the European Alliance of Medical Research Infrastructures, is the collaboration between the European research infrastructures BBMRI-ERIC, EATRIS-ERIC, and ECRIN-ERIC. Radislav Sedlacek from CCP, former Chair of the ESFRI Health and Food Strategic Working Group, will participate in the roundtable discussion. Registration is free of charge. More information: EU-AMRI website. Read more

Czech Centre for Phenogenomics is coordinating a new research programme “Towards precision medicine and gene therapy” of the AV21 Strategy. Our programme benefits from the synergistic expertise of all partners and creates a multidisciplinary consortium covering the areas of gene editing, organic chemistry of nucleic acid delivery systems, preclinical models of human diseases, and starting with neurosciences… Read more

On the occasion of the International Day of Rare Diseases Czech Centre for Phenogenomics in collaboration with BIOCEV and Czech Academy of Sciences issued a press release summarizing their research in the area of rare diseases. The press release (in English) is available on the BIOCEV website. The press release (in Czech) is available on… Read more

We are celebrating the International Angelman Day on 15th February. Angelman’s syndrome is an inherited disease of the central nervous system that causes severe physical and mental disabilities. The team of the Czech Center for Phenogenomics is engaged in research of Angelman’s syndrome (and other rare diseases) on mouse models created by us or already… Read more

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The emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants that harbor mutations in the viral S protein raised concern about activity of current vaccines and therapeutic antibodies. CCP participated in the research study aiming to find new tools for COVID-19 therapy based on the novel monoclonal antibodies. The results were recently published in EBioMedicine belonging to the Lancet… Read more

Our collaboration with Luca Varani’s lab from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona in Switzerland will expand thanks to the grants of the Czech and the Swiss Science Foundations. Both foundations decided to fund our joint project “SARS-Cov-2: understanding the entry, multi-organ spread and immune response in the context of vaccination and re-infection”… Read more