public non-university research institution, which comprises a system of scientific institutes. It conducts its activities in accord with Act No. 283/1992 Coll., On the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), and other legal regulations. Research conducted by the ASCR endeavours to advance knowledge on an international scale while however respecting the current needs of Czech society. The supreme autonomous body of the ASCR is the Academy Assembly. The executive body of the ASCR is the Academy Council with the President of the ASCR at its head. Its permanent advisory body is the Council for Sciences, which deals with the scientific policy of the ASCR. These all-academic bodies are always elected for four-year periods.
Václav Havel in Contemporary History
20 Mar 2012
Fast manipulation of a magnet by light
1 Apr 2012
A discovery of Czech physicists published in Nature Physics
A direct transfer of angular momentum from a circularly polarized light to spins allows to excite a magnet from its equilibrium state at sub-picosecond time scales. The discovery, allowing to manipulate spins in a magnet by short laser pulses, was reported by scientists from the joint Laboratory of Opto-Spintronics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University and the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The work was published on April 1st 2012 in the journal Nature Physics.
Syncytin – A good servant but a bad master
29 Feb 2012
Milk Thistle and Green Tea against Cancer
21 Jan 2012
Czech scientists have developed new anti-cancer substances
New possibilities in the treatment of cancer diseases have been opened by a discovery by Czech and Spanish researchers. The team of prof. Vladimír Křen from the Institute of Microbiology (MBÚ) of the ASCR along with the team of prof. Jitka Ulrichová from the Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University in Olomouc and with scientists from Universidad de Málaga in Spain have developed new derivatives with antiangiogenic activity on the basis of silybin ‒ substances obtained from milk thistle (Silybum marianum).
White Nose Syndrome: Can Czech Bats Help American Bats?
20 Jan 2012
An Article by Czech Scientists in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Scientists from Moravian workplaces have proved that bats here suffer from white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that is threatening the ecosystem in North America. In the Czech Republic as well as in other parts of Europe, bats with this syndrome die only very rarely and the disease has not yet caused a decline in the population numbers. Uncovering the cause of ‘European immunity’ could save North American bats and avert also the disruption of the biological balance in that part of the world.
My Meeting with Václav Havel
20 Dec 2011
New Laboratories for Polymer Research Named after Otto Wichterle
25 Nov 2011
The scientists of the Otto Wichterle Centre of Polymer Materials and Technologies (CPMT OW) Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (ÚMCH) of the Academy of Sciences of the CR are beginning to work in new laboratories. They were ceremonially opened on Thursday, 3rd November 2011 within the Open House Days of the Institutes (3–4 November), which are in the programme of the Science and Technology Week (STW) festival. On this occasion, the director of the institute František Rypáček emphasised the fundamental importance of polymers for modern man. They have penetrated into electronics, pharmacy and medicine and are becoming indispensible for us.
The Discovery of the Principle of Timing the Activation of Memories in the Brain
13 Oct 2011
Discussions on Wheat Improvement in Paris
20 Sep 2011
Profesor Holý celebrated his 75th birthday in the new laboratories
20 Sep 2011
On Thursday, 1 September 2011 at 10 A.M., the reconstructed building of biochemistry of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the ASCR, dedicated to Prof. Antonín Holý, who celebrated his birthday that day, had its grand opening. The Jubilee celebrant attended the opening of the peak laboratories in person despite a serious illness. President of the Academy of Sciences of the CR Prof. Jiří Drahoš wished Prof. Holý particularly plenty of good health and emphasised that ‘besides the basic conditions like genius, intuition and luck, exceptional results of scientific work are always based on systematic and long-term basic research’.
Astronaut Andrew Feustel in the Czech Republic
18 Aug 2011
Czech researcher Professor Blanka Říhová has been nominated for European Inventor Award 2011
4 Mar 2011
Professor Blanka Říhová from Czech Academy of Sciences has been nominated for European Inventor Award 2011 in lifetime achievement category. Blanka Říhová, currently Head of Department of Immunology and Gnotobiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000 – 2007, Director of the Institute of Microbiology in Prague, Czech Republic), and her team have, in close collaboration with the team of professor Karel Ulbrich, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic strived to develop a more targeted treatment with positive results.
IOCHB at EXPO 2010
10 Nov 2010
An exposition of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR at the international fair EXPO 2010 belongs, without a doubt, to the biggest lures of the event in Shanghai. It presents an international success of prof. Holý's team in a treatment of AIDS. The growing interest of visitors in the exposition led to an organization of a special scientific seminar which will take place on 23.9. 2010 in the Expo forum and which will be presenting Czech science, especially a research at the Institute of organic chemistry and biochemistry.
