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Application deadline: EXTENDED 28 Febuary 2021 Application costs: This TA Call is free-of-charge for the selected applicants. Main objective of this INFRAFRONTIER2020 Trans-national Access Call is to provide extensive user support to the selected projects for assessing novel potential vaccine and treatment compounds for COVID-19. As starting material for the TA service, only sufficient amounts of… Read more

Transgenic Unit of the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics has grown in recent years to offer expanded gene and genome engineering services to researchers by applying the latest cutting-edge technologies such as TALENs, CRISPR/Cas9(Cas12a)-based tools, Easi-CRISPR and others. The introduction of specific mutations by electroporation of zygotes is preferentially used over conventional pronuclear injections and other… Read more

Nineteen research institutions from around the world, including the Czech Republic, joined forces within the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) to jointly decipher the function of all, approximately 20,000 mammalian (and human), genes. The result is an ever-growing “encyclopaedia” that helps to identify the emergence of human diseases and propose new treatments. Thanks to his… Read more

16 – 17 September 2021 / Vestec, Czech Republic The Conference was divided into two blocks. The first day was devoted to the theme “Human diseases and models“. The second day was specifically dedicated to preclinical development, including covid-19, which focused on translation of the basic research into the application. The Conference provided an excellent… Read more

The first issue of Volume 5 (2020) of the Phenogenomics Newsletter has been just released. It features overviews of the services available to researchers and current or potential collaboration partners. Its objective is to highlight recent achievements, introduce new technologies and directions for future development, and allows insights into work and life at the CCP.… Read more

The Orbis Pictus 2020 Award, sponsored by the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, was awarded to Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, one of the most outstanding investigators in the fields of biophotonics and bioengineering. The Orbis Pictus Lecture was presented on the occasion of the 16th Transgenic Technology Meeting (TT2020). Elizabeth M.C. Hillman is a Professor of… Read more

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing. For more information visit the Nobel Prize website. Interested in using CRISPR/Cas9 technology? Our proficient team of Transgenic and Archiving Module provides services from design to delivery of a mutant… Read more

The PREVALENT initiative brings together 15 partners across 9 European countries who have joined forces to implement a novel European Research Infrastructure for pre-clinical, environmental, virtual integrative assessments, and therapeutics development. PREVALENT integrates essential pre-clinical research platforms ranging from pre-clinical evaluations of drugs, disease modelling using precision animal models, medicinal chemistry, and the assessment of… Read more

The 2nd CCP Phenogenomics Conference took place on 17 – 18 September 2020 at BIOCEV campus in Vestec as an on-site event with participation of high profile remote international speakers. The conference was attended by 90 on-site participants, 17 remote speakers and the online streaming was watched by 30 participants on average. Topics: Therapeutics, therapeutic… Read more

The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) invites all young scientists to join the first virtual DZD Diabetes Research School this fall. With talks by renowned scientists and the opportunity to present your research in a short poster talk! Date: September 29 – October 15, 2020every Tuesday and Thursday4 – 6:30 p.m. More information and… Read more