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It is our great honour to invite you cordially to the 5th CCP Phenogenomics Conference, which will be held on 14 – 15 September 2023 in Prague & online. Similarly, to the last year, the conference is devoted to the topic of rare diseases & their therapies this year, with special focus on experimental models… Read more

As the most common research mammal in the world, mice are key to many aspects of biomedical research and, in turn, scientific and medical advancements. Without mice, we would lack a crucial understanding of major diseases, including cancer and genetic disorders like muscular dystrophy, which has led to lasting benefits for humans and animals alike.… Read more

The Czech Centre for Phenogenomics organized a theoretical and practical seminar “Phenotyping technologies for working with mouse models” for first year students of the Faculty of Science of Charles University in April 2023. The students of the subject “Molecular and General Biology” met Jan Prochazka from Phenotyping Module, who gave a lecture on phenotyping of… Read more

Highlights of the Issue: The new state-of-the-art BSL-3 laboratory at the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics CCP preclinical services in a nutshell Focus on rare diseases: the Alliance for Rare Disease Research and Therapy is launched Open access to CCP services under transnational calls Full version of the e-Newsletter Read more

The researchers from the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics contributed to a new book “Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine – Sex and Gender-Specific Biology in the Postgenomic Era” (4th Edition – April 17, 2023, Elsevier) with a chapter “CRISPR Technology and Its Role in Treating Rare Imprinting Diseases”. Read more

The new state-of-the-art BSL-3 laboratory for work with highly infectious viruses and bacteria in the Czech Republic was opened on 9 March at the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics (Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the BIOCEV centre). When it is fully operational, it will raise the level of Czech research… Read more

PhD student Miles Raishbrook from the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics was awarded with the January Picture of the Month. Competition is organized by the Imaging Methods Core Facility at BIOCEV campus . Read more

V předvečer Světového dne vzácných onemocnění dne 27. února 2023 uspořádalo České centrum pro fenogenomiku při Ústavu molekulární genetiky AV ČR s partnery diskusi předních odborníků k tématům vzácných onemocnění v prostorách Magenta Experience Centre na Praze 4. Cílem akce bylo představit široké veřejnosti problematiku vzácných onemocnění z pohledu vědců v základním výzkumu, lékařů a pacientských organizací a vznik… Read more

Applications for innovative proposals to harness canSERV´s unified oncology services launches this week. A first of its kind, the largest European-wide consortium of research infrastructures is offering free-of-charge transnational access to cutting-edge services to develop breakthrough personalised cancer treatments. The complexity of cancer requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach, integrating patient- and tumour-specific information at different… Read more

Human Diseases Models Morphological Phenotyping (MorphoPHEN) consists of an integrated and interdisciplinary Erasmus Mundus Joint Master. It is conceived to alleviate the real shortage of experts in morphological mouse phenotyping, which is needed to generate a positive impact of preclinical biomedicine and improve human translatability (from the bench to the bedside). MorphoPHENis a one-year Erasmus… Read more