Institute Profile
The Institute of Experimental Medicine (IEM) is a renowned center of biomedical research, manifested by the fact that the Institute was awarded the status of an EU Center of Excellence – MEDIPRA, by the participation of the Institute’ s scientists in projects of the 6th and 7th EU Framework Programmes and by its extensive collaborations on both national and international levels. Both Czech and foreign Ph. D. students work in the Institute, funded by EU grants as well as by the Institute’ s core budget. The Institute supports young group leaders and is a partner in the EU project ENI-NET, bringing together leading European institutes in the field of neuroscience; it is the seat of the biomedical commission for awarding DSc. degrees; and it has the highest percentage of Ph. D. students among all the institutes of the Academy of Sciences. The outcomes of the Institute’s research, which have already been applied in practice, include those in the fields of environmental protection, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, pharmacology and diagnostic methods. Currently the Institute consists of 10 departments and 2 independent laboratories.
Departments:
- Department of Neuroscience
- Department of Auditory Neuroscience
- Department of Cellular Neurophysiology
- Department of Molecular Embryology
- Laboratory of Tissue Engineering
- Department of Teratology
- Department of Genetic Ecotoxicology
- Department of the Molecular Biology of Cancer
- Laboratory of Cell Biology
- Department of Pharmacology
- Microscopy Unit
- Department of Technology Transfer / IBC
Research workers of the Institute, Czech as well as foreign, also work in the following three research centers of the Ministry of Education:Center for Cell Therapy and Tissue Repair
(Head: Prof. Eva Syková, MD, DSc)
combines a number of sites. Important findings have been made in stem cell transplantation in models of pathologies of the central nervous system, pancreas, liver, epidermis, brain and spinal cord, the labelling of cells with superparamagnetic nanoparticles, the development of imaging methods and the development of materials for tissue repair.
Center for New Antivirotics and Antineoplastics
(Head: Zdeněk Zídek, PhD, DSc)
The Department of Pharmacology takes part in pharmacological research, for instance in the discovery of substances with immunomodulatory activity, significant in HIV therapy.
Center for Neuroscience
(Head: Prof. Josef Syka, MD, DSc)
joins together significant research sites in Prague in the field of neuroscience and takes part in research into the mechanisms of ionic channels, glial cells, synaptic and extrasynaptic transmission, the central mechanisms of hearing and pain, and the mechanisms underlying brain and spinal cord diseases.
